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 Introd Church and Castle from above Villeneuve, Val d'Aosta 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Introd Church and Castle from above Villeneuve, Val d'Aosta’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 85 Recto:
Introd Church and Castle from above Villeneuve, Val d’Aosta 1836
D29366
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 84
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘84’ top left, running vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 84’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of the castle at Introd is taken from Villeneuve; for a view from a similar direction in this sketchbook see D29373; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 88.

David Hill
June 2010

Revised by David Blayney Brown
August 2013

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Introd Church and Castle from above Villeneuve, Val d’Aosta 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, revised by David Blayney Brown, August 2013, 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-introd-church-and-castle-from-above-villeneuve-val-daosta-r1144916, accessed 23 April 2024.