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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches at Lausanne 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches at Lausanne’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Verso:
Three Sketches at Lausanne 1836
D29125
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 47a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘4 hotel[?]’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches:
i. (left, drawn inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in this sketchbook) The right section of a two-part panorama of the citadel of Lausanne from the north-east, continued from the opposite page (D29126; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 48).
ii. (right, drawn with the page upright) The chateau of Lausanne. Turner sketched the same material from a viewpoint slightly further left on the recto (D29124; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 47).
iii. (middle, drawn with the page upright) Lausanne, the lower town looking west past the church of St François, with a large mansion (perhaps a hotel) in the left middle distance and a view of Lake Geneva towards Geneva beyond. Inscribed below mansion, ‘4 hotel[?]’. The same building is sketched on a subsequent page (D29133; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 51a).

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Three Sketches at Lausanne 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-r1144671, accessed 03 February 2025.