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 80 Recto:
The Castle of St Pierre, Val d’Aosta, from the North 1836
D29358
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 79
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘79’ top left, running vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 79’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The Castle of St Pierre, Val d’Aosta, is seen here from the north with the summit of La Grivola in the distance on the left.
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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-r1144908, accessed 24 April 2024.