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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Composition Studies for 'Lake of Geneva with Mont Blanc from the Lake' c.1802-5

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Composition Studies for 'Lake of Geneva with Mont Blanc from the Lake'’ c.1802-5
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 81 Verso:
Two Composition Studies for ‘Lake of Geneva with Mont Blanc from the Lake’ c.1802–5
D05062
Turner Bequest LXXXI 160
Black and white chalks on blue laid paper, 436 x 271 mm
Watermarks ‘1794’ and ‘VI’
Inscribed along right edge, in pen and brown ink ‘Studies for the Lake of Geneva’
Stamped in black ‘LXXXI–160’ top right, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, these variations are two of many studies in this sketchbook for the large watercolour of about 1805 showing Lake of Geneva, with Mont Blanc from the Lake (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven);1 see under folio 8 verso (D04917; Turner Bequest LXXXI 16). In both of those on this page, Turner pursues the taller, squarer format that appears in the composition study on the recto (D05061; Turner Bequest LXXXI 159).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.342 no.370, reproduced.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Two Composition Studies for ‘Lake of Geneva with Mont Blanc from the Lake’ c.1802–5 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-composition-studies-for-lake-of-geneva-with-mont-blanc-r1178266, accessed 13 May 2024.