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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner From below Villeneuve, Looking up the Val d'Aosta to Introd 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘From below Villeneuve, Looking up the Val d'Aosta to Introd’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Recto:
From below Villeneuve, Looking up the Val d’Aosta to Introd 1836
D29322
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 59
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Watermarked ‘Auondo’
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘59’ top left, running vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 59, top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
From below Villeveuve, this sketch looks up the Val d’Aosta, with the lower bridge of Villeneuve below left and Introd on the hill in the centre distance. It forms more or less the continuation to the right of the sketch on the verso (D29323; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 59a).

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘From below Villeneuve, Looking up the Val d’Aosta to Introd 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-below-villeneuve-looking-up-the-val-daosta-to-introd-r1144872, accessed 25 April 2024.