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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Strada Romana at Donnas, near Fort Bard, Val d'Aosta 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Strada Romana at Donnas, near Fort Bard, Val d'Aosta’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Verso:
The Strada Romana at Donnas, near Fort Bard, Val d’Aosta 1836
D29273
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 34 (but see main catalogue entry)
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Donnaz’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These few quick lines indicate the Strada Romana Donnas, ‘Donnaz’ in Turner’s notation, looking up the Val d’Aosta.
This page was numbered as the recto by Finberg, although the opposite side (otherwise blank) was numbered in blue ink, possibly by John Ruskin, as the recto, and stamped with the Turner Bequest number accordingly. It has since been rebound, in its correct orientation, as folio 35 verso.
The other (recto) side is also inscribed with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ bottom right.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Strada Romana at Donnas, near Fort Bard, Val d’Aosta 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-the-strada-romana-at-donnas-near-fort-bard-val-daosta-r1144824, accessed 20 September 2024.