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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Church of St Gilles and the Castle at Verres, Val d'Aosta 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Church of St Gilles and the Castle at Verres, Val d'Aosta’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Recto:
The Church of St Gilles and the Castle at Verres, Val d’Aosta 1836
D29298
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 47
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Watermarked ‘Fratelli’
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘47’ top left, running vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 47’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Verres, Val d’Aosta, includes the Church of St Gilles from the street with the castle beyond. Turner notes the time as 12.35 on the church clock (if a two-handed clock).

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Church of St Gilles and the Castle at Verres, 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-church-of-st-gilles-and-the-castle-at-verres-val-daosta-r1144848, accessed 24 April 2024.