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 Mont Blanc from near Courmayeur 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mont Blanc from near Courmayeur’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 70 Verso:
Mont Blanc from near Courmayeur 1802
D04476
Turner Bequest LXXIII 70a
Pencil, and splashes of green wash, on grey-buff laid paper, 138 x 215 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘Near Courmayeur’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXIII 70a’ 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). This sketch looking towards Mont Blanc is continued on folio 71 (D04477).

David Blayney Brown
June 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Mont Blanc 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-mont-blanc-from-near-courmayeur-r1133105, accessed 25 April 2024.