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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Tour to the Alps 1836 > Fort Bard Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches: The Croix des Têtes above St Martin-de-la-Porte and St Martin de Maurienne from Below 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches: The Croix des Têtes above St Martin-de-la-Porte and St Martin de Maurienne from Below’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Verso:
Two Sketches: The Croix des Têtes above St Martin-de-la-Porte and St Martin de Maurienne from Below 1836
D29228
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 8a
Pencil on white wove paper, 148 x 104 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘St Martin’, ‘St Michel’, ‘go x’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two sketches, drawn with the page upright:
i. The Croix des Têtes looking down the Maurienne Valley at ‘St Martin’-de-la-Porte; perhaps continued to the right on the facing page (D29229; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 9), as signified by the inscription ‘go x’ below.
ii. A view of ‘St Michel’ from below, looking up the valley, with the church and fort to the left.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Sketches: The Croix des Têtes above St Martin-de-la-Porte and St Martin de Maurienne from Below 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-sketches-the-croix-des-tetes-above-st-martin-de-la-porte-r1144780, accessed 26 April 2024.