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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Across the Ponte Suaz, Aosta 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Across the Ponte Suaz, Aosta’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 86 Verso:
Across the Ponte Suaz, Aosta 1836
D29369
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 85a
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch looks across the Ponte Suaz1 at Aosta, with the Grand Combin in the distance. Turner sketched the same material from slightly differing viewpoints, in this sketchbook (D29338; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 67) and on a larger scale elsewhere (Tate D34888; Turner Bequest CCCXLIV 394).

David Hill
June 2010

Revised by Matthew Imms
November 2022

1
Amended from ‘Suza’ (as sometimes given elsewhere in recent Turner literature), as kindly suggested from local knowledge by Elisa Yeuillaz in an email to Tate, 3 November 2022, also noting the French variation ‘Pont Suaz’.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Across the Ponte Suaz, Aosta 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, revised by Matthew Imms, November 2022, 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-across-the-ponte-suaz-aosta-r1144919, accessed 16 April 2024.