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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ussel Castle, Val d'Aosta, from Chatillon 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ussel Castle, Val d'Aosta, from Chatillon’ 1836 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Front Cover:
Ussel Castle, Val d’Aosta, from Chatillon 1836
D41206
Turner Bequest
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Oussel’
Endorsed by the Executors of the Turner Bequest in ink ‘No.357 | 84 leaves of pencil sketches’ and signed by Henry Scott Trimmer ‘H S Trimmer’ and initialled by Charles Lock Eastlake ‘C.L.E’ and John Prescott Knight ‘J P K’ to right, descending vertically
Inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil ‘CCXCIV’ bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCXCIV’ top right, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The few slight pencil lines here record the view from Chatillon, Val d’Aosta, looking from the upper bridge across the lower bridge to the Castle of Ussel, (inscribed ‘Oussel’) on an eminence opposite. Turner sketched similar subjects in this sketchbook (D29220, D29268, D29269, D29313; D29314; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 4a, 30, 30a 54a, 55).

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Ussel Castle, Val d’Aosta, from Chatillon 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-ussel-castle-val-daosta-from-chatillon-r1144764, accessed 21 November 2024.