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 Mountains, with Ruins on Rock, ?Val d'Aosta 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mountains, with Ruins on Rock, ?Val d'Aosta’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 46 Verso:
Mountains, with Ruins on Rock, ?Val d’Aosta 1836
D29295
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 45a
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Watermarked ‘Fratelli’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Calion[?]’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This castle on an eminence in a mountainous valley is inscribed ‘Calion[?]’. There is a village in the foreground with a church spire, left, and another church spire deep in the valley to right. The setting is probably the Val d’Aosta, in the area of Verres and Issogne, but no modern placenames in the area are readily identifiable with Turner’s inscription (and a sketch of Susa occurs nearby in the sketchbook (D29293; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 44a).

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Mountains, with Ruins on Rock, ?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-mountains-with-ruins-on-rock-val-daosta-r1144845, accessed 03 February 2025.