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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study for 'Lake of Geneva, with Mont Blanc from the Lake' c.1802-5

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study for 'Lake of Geneva, with Mont Blanc from the Lake'’ c.1802-5
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Verso:
Study for ‘Lake of Geneva, with Mont Blanc from the Lake’ c.1802–5
D04921
Turner Bequest LXXXI 20
Black, white and brown chalk on blue laid paper, 271 x 436 mm
Watermarks ‘1794’ and ‘VI’
Stamped in black ‘LXXXI–20’ top left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. In about 1805 Turner worked on a large watercolour Lake of Geneva, with Mont Blanc from the Lake, with the city of Geneva to the right, on commission for Edward Lascelles (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven),1 and there are several studies for it in this sketchbook; see under folio 8 verso (D04917; Turner Bequest LXXXI 16).
1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.342 no.370, reproduced.
Technical notes:
There is colour offsetting from folio 11 recto opposite (D04922).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Study for ‘Lake of Geneva, with Mont Blanc from the Lake’ c.1802–5 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-study-for-lake-of-geneva-with-mont-blanc-from-the-lake-r1178125, accessed 21 November 2024.