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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Fort Bard, Val d'Aosta 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fort Bard, Val d'Aosta’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 43 Verso:
Fort Bard, Val d’Aosta 1836
D29289
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 42a
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Fort Bard, Val d’Aosta, appears here from the Donnas side, along with a very rough, almost indecipherable thumbnail sketch, presumably of a similar aspect, lower right

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘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-fort-bard-val-daosta-r1144839, accessed 25 April 2024.