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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner From Chatillon, Val d'Aosta, with Ussel Castle in the Distance 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘From Chatillon, Val d'Aosta, with Ussel Castle in the Distance’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Recto:
From Chatillon, Val d’Aosta, with Ussel Castle in the Distance 1836
D29221
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 5
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘5’ bottom right, descending vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 5’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The view here is of Chatillon in the Val d’Aosta, looking down on the bridges from the Cervina road with the Castle of Ussel in the distance beyond. This sketch is out of sequence in relation to the sketches in the Maurienne Valley, Turner having opened the book at the wrong end as he did in several cases.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘From Chatillon, Val d’Aosta, with Ussel Castle in the Distance 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-from-chatillon-val-daosta-with-ussel-castle-in-the-distance-r1144773, accessed 24 November 2024.