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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Castle of St Pierre, Val d'Aosta, from the North 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Castle of St Pierre, Val d'Aosta, from the North’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 79 Recto:
The Castle of St Pierre, Val d’Aosta, from the North 1836
D29356
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 78
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Watermarked ‘Fratelli’
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘78’ top left, running vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 78’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this sketch the Castle of St Pierre, Val d’Aosta, is seen from the north, from a viewpoint slightly further right of D29358; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 79 nearby in the sketchbook, with the peak of La Grivola to the right.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Castle of St Pierre, Val d’Aosta, from the North 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-from-the-north-r1144906, accessed 26 April 2024.