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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > St Gothard and Mont Blanc Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner La Salle, Val d'Aosta 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘La Salle, Val d'Aosta’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 43 Recto:
La Salle, Val d’Aosta 1802
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Turner Bequest LXXV 43
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with grey wash, 315 x 473 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘43’ bottom right and blue ink ‘26’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXV 43’ bottom left, descending vertically
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Turner passed through La Salle on his way down the Val d’Aosta. His label for this quite careful drawing, also numbered ‘26’, reads ‘Ville de Salle Valley d’Aoust’. He also listed ‘Ville de Salle’ twice among subjects commissioned, in hand or ‘done’ at the front of his album of 1802 drawings (see Technical notes to the Grenoble sketchbook, Tate, Turner Bequest LXXIV), and noted ‘7 Salle’ in a list of French and Swiss subjects on the back of a random pencil drawing (verso of Tate D08253; Turner Bequest CXX m).
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David Blayney Brown
October 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘La Salle, Val d’Aosta 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 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-la-salle-val-daosta-r1146501, accessed 20 April 2024.