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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Perloz, Val d'Aosta, with the Fort above Pont St Martin 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Perloz, Val d'Aosta, with the Fort above Pont St Martin’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 36 Recto:
Perloz, Val d’Aosta, with the Fort above Pont St Martin 1836
D29275
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 35
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Pirlo’
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘35’ top left, running vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 35’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Perloz, or ‘Perto’ in Turner’s inscription, in the Val d’Aosta is seen here possibly from near Carema; this is a quick and scrappy sketch of the fort above Pont St Martin, with a church spire in foreground and another on the hillside beyond.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Perloz, Val d’Aosta, with the Fort above Pont St Martin 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-perloz-val-daosta-with-the-fort-above-pont-st-martin-r1144825, accessed 19 April 2024.