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 The Porta Praetoria, Aosta 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Porta Praetoria, Aosta’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 77 Recto:
The Porta Praetoria, Aosta 1836
D29353
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 76
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘76’ top left, running vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 76’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch of the Porta Praetoria at Aosta occupies a gap that evidently remained in a sequence of views of St Pierre entered in the sketchbook as a continuous series. Turner must have missed a page and then filled it in with this sketch soon afterwards. Other sketches hereabouts are from later in the tour when Turner was working on the blank versos.
Verso:
Blank

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Porta Praetoria, 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-porta-praetoria-aosta-r1144903, accessed 26 April 2024.