'The Mont Blanc Massif from near Courmayeur', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

The Mont Blanc Massif from near Courmayeur

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

D04464

Turner Bequest LXXIII 64 a

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 64 Verso:

The Mont Blanc Massif from near Courmayeur 1802

D04464
Turner Bequest LXXIII 64a

Pencil, lightly touched with white chalk on grey-buff laid paper, 138 x 215 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Sentier’ centre right
Stamped in black ‘LXXIII 64a’ bottom right, running vertically

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

For Courmayeur, see folio 62 verso of this sketchbook (D04460). The various sketches made nearby in this sketchbook are listed with it.

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.

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Joseph Mallord William Turner

Geographic location

Italy

Sketchbooks

1802-18 Academician and professor

Sketchbooks from the 1800s

France, Savoy, Piedmont Sketchbook

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