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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches of Geneva near the Junction of the Rivers Rhône and Arve 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches of Geneva near the Junction of the Rivers Rhône and Arve’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 55 Verso:
Three Sketches of Geneva near the Junction of the Rivers Rhône and Arve 1836
D29141
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 55a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches, drawn (mostly) inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in the sketchbook:
i. (right) The right section of a two-part panorama of Geneva from above the Quai du Seujet, continued from the adjacent page (D29142; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 56) to include water mills on the River Rhône and Mont Salève.
ii. (centre, drawn with the page in the upright position) The junction of the Rivers Arve and Rhône below Geneva; looking downstream from above the Arve, the Rhône flowing in from the right and the hills of the Jura in the distance.
iii. (left) The right part of a three part panorama of Geneva from the west, continued to the right from the drawing on the opposite page (D41095).
For notes on the Rhône at Geneva see D29140; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 55 in this sketchbook.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Three Sketches of Geneva near the Junction of the Rivers Rhône and Arve 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-of-geneva-near-the-junction-of-the-rivers-r1144687, accessed 06 February 2025.