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 From above Chatillon, Val d'Aosta, Looking over the New Bridge to Ussel Castle 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘From above Chatillon, Val d'Aosta, Looking over the New Bridge to Ussel Castle’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Recto:
From above Chatillon, Val d’Aosta, Looking over the New Bridge to Ussel Castle 1836
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Turner Bequest CCXCIV 55
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘55’ top left, running vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 55’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view at Chatillon, Val d’Aosta, is taken from the Cervina road above the ‘new’ bridge, with the Roman arch in the foreground to the right and Ussel Castle on the hill beyond.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘From above Chatillon, Val d’Aosta, Looking over the New Bridge to Ussel Castle 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-from-above-chatillon-val-daosta-looking-over-the-new-bridge-r1144864, accessed 19 April 2024.