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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches at Lausanne and Vevey 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches at Lausanne and Vevey’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Recto:
Three Sketches at Lausanne and Vevey 1836
D29062
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 16
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘W V Green L’ bottom right
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘16’ top right and ‘320’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 16’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches:
i. (main sketch) Panorama of Lausanne citadel and Cathedral from the south, taken from the vicinity of the Rue de Bourg, continued to the right from the opposite page (D29061; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 15a). Turner has run out of room for the cathedral, which is directly above the prominent building, and has squeezed it in below (ii).
ii. (bottom left) The spire of Lausanne Cathedral: the continuation above of the main sketch (i) and continued to the right from D29061, opposite
iii (bottom right) Lake Geneva, the south shore looking west from near Vevey, a storm over the lake in the distance and flash of lightning, boats and figures in the foreground. This is the third part of a three-part panorama continued from D29061, opposite. This sketch is inscribed ‘W V Green L’ bottom right.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Three Sketches at Lausanne and Vevey 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-three-sketches-at-lausanne-and-vevey-r1144611, accessed 29 April 2025.