J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > Paris, France, Savoy 2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches amidst the Mountains in Savoy 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches amidst the Mountains in Savoy’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 62 Recto:
Sketches amidst the Mountains in Savoy 1819
D14090
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 62
Pencil on white wove paper, 185 x 114 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Blue’ top centre and ‘Mt Cenis’ centre left-hand edge
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIII 62’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains several distinct sketches of mountainous landscape which according to an inscription by the artist, relate to the Pass of Mont Cenis in the Cottian Alps. The largest view utilises the vertical height of the sheet in order to capture the vast scale of the peaks rising above a bridge in the foreground. The details at the bottom of the page meanwhile are part of the composition which has spilled over from the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 61 verso (D14089).
For a general discussion of Turner’s passage through the Alps see the Introduction to the sketchbook.

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Sketches amidst the Mountains in Savoy 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sketches-amidst-the-mountains-in-savoy-r1142949, accessed 25 April 2024.