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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Sketches of Avise and Fort Roch in the Val d'Aosta 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Sketches of Avise and Fort Roch in the Val d'Aosta’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Recto:
Four Sketches of Avise and Fort Roch in the Val d’Aosta 1836
D29068
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 19
Pencil on white wove paper, 190 x 113 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘wood’ and Avise’ top right, and ‘Arvia’ bottom left, inverted.
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘19’ top left, running vertically, and ‘320’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 19’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains four sketches, made working down the page from the outside edge with the sketchbook in the upright position:
i. Avise from the road to Fort Roch, looking north towards Mont Blanc, inscribed ‘Avise’, and ‘wood’, right.
ii. Avise from the Fort Roch road, looking down the Val d’Aosta.
iii. Mont Blanc from the Fort Roch road.
iv. (at bottom of page, inverted in relation to the other sketches on this page) Looking down the Val d’Aosta to Arvier from the old road above Leverogne, inscribed ‘Arvia’ to the right of the sketch.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Four Sketches of Avise and Fort Roch in the Val d’Aosta 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, 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-four-sketches-of-avise-and-fort-roch-in-the-val-daosta-r1144617, accessed 26 January 2025.