'?Waterfall within Mountains near the Simplon Pass', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

?Waterfall within Mountains near the Simplon Pass

From Passage of the Simplon Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CXCIV

Date 1819

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 121 x 195 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D16916

Turner Bequest CXCIV 14

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 14 Recto:

?Waterfall within Mountains near the Simplon Pass 1819

D16916
Turner Bequest CXCIV 14

Pencil and grey watercolour wash on white wove paper, 121 x 195 mm

Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘14’, bottom left, descending left-hand edge
Stamped in black ‘CXCIV 14’ bottom left, descending left-hand edge

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

The details of the sketch on this page are extremely rough but the subject appears to be a waterfall, or possibly a glacier, amidst the mountains near the Simplon Pass. Like many sheets within this sketchbook the drawing has been executed in pencil over a dark grey watercolour wash.

For a general discussion of Turner’s expedition to the Simplon Pass see the introduction to the sketchbook.

Nicola Moorby
April 2011

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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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Context

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Sketchbooks

1819-29 Italy and after

Sketchbooks from the 1810s

Passage of the Simplon Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest