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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Tour to the Alps 1836 > Fort Bard Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Aosta and the Ponte Suaz 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Aosta and the Ponte Suaz’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Recto:
Aosta and the Ponte Suaz 1836
D29338
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 67
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘67’ top left, running vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 67’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the left part of a two-part panorama continued to the right D29336; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 66, recording Aosta and the Ponte Suaz,1 here looking north over the city to the Grand Combin in the distance left of centre.

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, ‘Aosta and the Ponte Suaz 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-aosta-and-the-ponte-suaz-r1144888, accessed 06 January 2025.