Graphite, watercolour and pen on paper
Fribourg, Lausanne and Geneva Sketchbook
Fribourg, Lausanne and Geneva Sketchbook
Switzerland
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Martigny Castle La Bâtiaz South
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
castle
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
landscape
Martigny, La Bâtiaz
military
mountain
places
rocky
Switzerland
<p>Ruskin expressed some reservations about his identification of this view as Martigny: 'the pencil marks in the ruin are not so conclusive as I should like to have them'. It does, however, appear to show the castle of La Batiaz at Martigny, which Turner had first sketched on his tour of the Alps in 1802. As in his comments on many of these studies, Ruskin was chiefly interested in discerning Turner's working method: 'The excessive haste with which the colour has been thrown on the sketch, not in the least coinciding with the pencil outlines, and yet the subtlety of the effects wrought as the wash was laid on, render this memorandum, very interesting'.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour pen
16 January 2015 – 3 July 2016
2016-07-03
16 January 2015
2015-01-16
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2015-01-16
Among the Mountains
Collection based display
Martigny: The Castle of La Bâtiaz, from the South
support: 229 × 291 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>Ruskin expressed some reservations about his identification of this view as Martigny: 'the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/g/graphite" title="Glossary definition for 'Graphite'"><span>pencil</span></a> marks in the ruin are not so conclusive as I should like to have them'. It does, however, appear to show the castle of La Batiaz at Martigny, which Turner had first sketched on his tour of the Alps in 1802. As in his comments on many of these studies, Ruskin was chiefly interested in discerning Turner's working method: 'The excessive haste with which the colour has been thrown on the sketch, not in the least coinciding with the pencil outlines, and yet the subtlety of the effects wrought as the wash was laid on, render this memorandum, very interesting'.</p>
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