J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Tour to the Alps 1836 > Fort Bard Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Chambéry from the North 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Chambéry from the North’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Recto:
Chambéry from the North 1836
D29254
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 23
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Watermarked ‘B. Arnos[so]’
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘23’ top left, running vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 23’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a still more distant view of Chambéry from the north than the sketch on D29252; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 23 in this sketchbook.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Chambéry from the North 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-chambery-from-the-north-r1144806, accessed 25 April 2024.