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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Composition Study for 'Lake of Geneva with Mont Blanc' c.1799-1805

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Composition Study for 'Lake of Geneva with Mont Blanc'’ c.1799-1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 65 Verso:
Composition Study for ‘Lake of Geneva with Mont Blanc’ c.1799–1805
D05030
Turner Bequest LXXXI 128
Black and white chalks on blue laid paper, 436 x 271 mm
Watermarks ‘1794’ and Strasburg lily
Inscribed by Turner in ink ‘L Geneva’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXXXI–128’ top right, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is one of a sequence of studies for the large watercolour of about 1805, 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).
At the gutter is a slight continuation of the study of a boat on folio 66 recto opposite (D05031; Turner Bequest LXXXI 129).
1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.342 no.370, reproduced.
Technical notes:
The page is stained by ink which has bled through from the recto (D05029; Turner Bequest LXXXI 127).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Composition Study for ‘Lake of Geneva with Mont Blanc’ c.1799–1805 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-composition-study-for-lake-of-geneva-with-mont-blanc-r1178234, accessed 30 June 2024.