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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > Passage of the Simplon Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Valley near the Simplon Pass 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Valley near the Simplon Pass’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Valley near the Simplon Pass 1819
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Turner Bequest CXCIV 3 a
Pencil and grey watercolour wash on white wove paper, 121 x 195 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Lower end of the [...]’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains a faint sketch of a valley surrounded by mountains, representing a location somewhere within the Swiss Alps near the Simplon Pass. Like many leaves within this sketchbook, the sheet has been prepared with a grey watercolour wash and Turner appears to have lifted or scratched out dots and passages of white, perhaps to indicate falling snow.

Nicola Moorby
April 2011

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Valley near the Simplon Pass 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-valley-near-the-simplon-pass-r1132770, accessed 23 April 2024.