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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner L'Eglise in the Val d'Aosta, with Quart Castle Beyond 1836

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘L'Eglise in the Val d'Aosta, with Quart Castle Beyond’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
L’Eglise in the Val d’Aosta, with Quart Castle Beyond 1836
D34881
Turner Bequest CCCXLIV 389
Pencil on paper, 261 x 278 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCCXLIV–389’
Inscribed in red ink ‘389’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This study relates to Turner’s 1836 tour of the Alps, which he made in the company of the wealthy Scottish landowner H.A.J. Munro of Novar; for more information, see the Introduction to this section.
Turner’s first tour of the Alps in 1802 included many of the places he saw again in 1836 but, as the Turner scholar David Hill has noted, the lower part of the Aosta valley was new territory.1 The present sketch includes the church of L’Eglise on the right, with Quart Castle seen atop rocky slopes in the mid-ground.
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Hill 2000, p.287.
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Elizabeth Jacklin
August 2019

How to cite

Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘L’Eglise in the Val d’Aosta, with Quart Castle Beyond 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2019, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-leglise-in-the-val-daosta-with-quart-castle-beyond-r1204605, accessed 18 May 2024.