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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Looking across Lake Geneva 1836

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Looking across Lake Geneva’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Looking across Lake Geneva 1836
D34290
Turner Bequest CCCXLII 85
Chalk and pencil on paper, 239 x 311 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCCXLII–85’ bottom right
Inscribed in red ink ‘85’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This study relates to Turner’s 1836 tour of the Alps, which he made in the company of the wealthy Scottish landowner H.A.J. Munro of Novar; for more information, see the Introduction to this section.
This view looks across Lake Geneva (or Lac Leman) to the Mole, a mountain near Bonneville, with Mont Blanc in the distance. For related pencil sketches also made in 1836, see D41097, D29147, D34195 and D34291 (Turner Bequest CCXCIII inside back cover and 59 a, CCCXLII 11 and 86). There are also some watercolour studies, D36058 (Turner Bequest CCCLXIV 212), which looks to have been made from lower down, closer to the lake, and D36109 (Turner Bequest CCCLXIV 262), a more distant view across the lake still made from a lower viewpoint than the present sketch.
Verso:
The sheet has been laid down on a piece of card and the verso could not be inspected at the time of cataloguing.

Elizabeth Jacklin
August 2019

How to cite

Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘Looking across Lake Geneva 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2019, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-looking-across-lake-geneva-r1204599, accessed 21 November 2024.