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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > France, Savoy, Piedmont Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Mont Blanc Massif from near Courmayeur 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Mont Blanc Massif from near Courmayeur’ 1802
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
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

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘The Mont Blanc Massif from near Courmayeur 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2004, 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-the-mont-blanc-massif-from-near-courmayeur-r1133093, accessed 10 June 2026.