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 Verres, Val d'Aosta; the Bridge, Castle and Church and College of St Gilles 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Verres, Val d'Aosta; the Bridge, Castle and Church and College of St Gilles’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Recto:
Verres, Val d’Aosta; the Bridge, Castle and Church and College of St Gilles 1836
D29306
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 51
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘51’ top left, running vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 51’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Verres, Val d’Aosta, includes the bridge in centre foreground, the College and Church of St Gilles to left, and Verres Castle on its crag to right. It appears to be closely related to the watercolour, Verres, Val d’Aosta (National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh)1 which however varies the form of the bridge and other buildings and does not, therefore, seem to have been made from the motif.

David Hill
June 2010

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.472 no.1435.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Verres, Val d’Aosta; the Bridge, Castle and Church and College of St Gilles 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-verres-val-daosta-the-bridge-castle-and-church-and-college-r1144856, accessed 27 April 2024.