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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Grenoble Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Castle of Chillon from the Shore of Lake Geneva 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Castle of Chillon from the Shore of Lake Geneva’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
The Castle of Chillon from the Shore of Lake Geneva 1802
D04574
Turner Bequest LXXIV 81
Pencil on greyish-buff laid paper, 213 x 282 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘do’ [ditto] bottom right
Stamped in black 'LXXIV 81' bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg listed this as one of 22 leaves from this sketchbook found ‘in a parcel labelled by Mr. Ruskin – “M. 16. Leaves of S. 229. Laid down.” They have been mounted on cartridge by Mr. Ruskin.’ Evidently, Ruskin isolated these drawings because they were pencil outlines, without the additions of chalk or gouache found elsewhere in the sketchbook.
For Chillon in this sketchbook see notes to D04570; Turner Bequest LXXIV 77. Here, the castle is seen from the east, from the shore of the lake. Turner made a more all-embracing treatment of the same view during his tour with H.A.J. Munro of Novar in 1836 (see the Val d’Aosta sketchbook, Tate D29116; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 43).
Verso:
Laid down

David Blayney Brown
September 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘The Castle of Chillon from the Shore of Lake Geneva 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-castle-of-chillon-from-the-shore-of-lake-geneva-r1146439, accessed 19 September 2024.