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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Tour to the Alps 1836 > Fort Bard Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Castle of St Pierre, Val d'Aosta, Looking to Mont Emilius and Aymavilles Castle 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Castle of St Pierre, Val d'Aosta, Looking to Mont Emilius and Aymavilles Castle’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 75 Recto:
The Castle of St Pierre, Val d’Aosta, Looking to Mont Emilius and Aymavilles Castle 1836
D29349
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 74
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Watermarked ‘Auondo’
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘74’ top left, running vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 74’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here the Castle of St Pierre, Val d’Aosta, is seen from the west, with Mont Emilius in the distance to the right and Aymavilles Castle below right.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Castle of St Pierre, Val d’Aosta, Looking to Mont Emilius and Aymavilles 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-the-castle-of-st-pierre-val-daosta-looking-to-mont-emilius-r1144899, accessed 18 April 2024.