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Fortified pass, Val d' AostaTurner, Joseph Mallord William (draughtsman) | |
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Title/s | Fortified pass, Val d' Aosta |
Maker/s | Turner, Joseph Mallord William (draughtsman) [ULAN info: British artist, 1775-1851] |
Category |
drawing |
Name | drawing |
School/Style | |
Technique Description | watercolour over black chalk with gum arabic on paper, laid down onto support sheet (paper) |
Dimensions |
height: (support sheet): 356
mm |
Date | 1802 |
Provenance | given: The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum 1931 (Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints) John Ruskin; Arthur Severn, sold Sotheby's, 10 May 1931, lot 109, bt. for the Friends of the Fitzwilliam |
Documentation |
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Notes | Formerly in the collection of John Ruskin, who described it as ‘a quite stupendous piece of drawing power’. He urged the viewer to ‘note the way the outline of the foreground bush is left by the black blot of the shadow, and then the whole bush created by two scratches for stems’. It passed from him to his protégé Arthur Severn (1843-1931), from whose sale in 1931, where it was acquired by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum. |
Material/s |
watercolour (medium) |
Accession Number | 1585 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints) |
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