'From Magland, Looking Back towards Cluses', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

From Magland, Looking Back towards Cluses

From France, Savoy, Piedmont Sketchbook

Turner Bequest LXXIII

Date 1802

MediumGraphite and chalk on paper

Dimensionssupport: 138 x 215 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D04448

Turner Bequest LXXIII 53

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 53 Recto:

From Magland, Looking Back towards Cluses 1802

D04448
Turner Bequest LXXIII 53

Pencil, lightly touched with white chalk on grey-buff laid paper, 138 x 215 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Magland’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXIII 53’ bottom let, descending vertically

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Magland is in the Arve valley between Cluses and Sallanches. As he approached the Mont Blanc massif, Turner was now making many more drawings in his larger St Gothard and Mont Blanc sketchbook (Tate D04590–D04648; D41390–D41391; Turner Bequest LXXV). His study of ‘The Aiguillette, Valley of Cluses’ (Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester), a view of the peak of La Croix de Fer, was made from Oex, between Magland and Sallanches. Here, Turner is looking back towards Cluses, for which see especially folio 49 of this sketchbook (D04444) and also folios 50–2 (D004445–D04447).

Verso:

Blank

David Blayney Brown
June 2004

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This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.