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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View from the Simplon Road; ?near Crevoladossola 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View from the Simplon Road; ?near Crevoladossola’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 82 Recto:
View from the Simplon Road; ?near Crevoladossola 1819
D14302
Turner Bequest CLXXIV 81
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 186 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘81’ top right and ‘284’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIV 81’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner followed the road from Domodossola, ascending ever higher into the Swiss Alps in order to visit the Simplon Pass. This sketch depicts a view seen from the Simplon road of a town or village nestled within the mountains. The precise location remains unidentified although it may depict a distant view of Crevoladossola, the subject of the sketch on the next page, see folio 82 verso (D14303; Turner Bequest CLXXIV 81a).
For a general discussion of Turner’s journey to the Simplon Pass see the introduction to the sketchbook, and also the introduction to the Passage of the Simplon sketchbook (Tate, Turner Bequest CXCIV).

Nicola Moorby
January 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘View from the Simplon Road; ?near Crevoladossola 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 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-view-from-the-simplon-road-near-crevoladossola-r1142823, accessed 24 April 2024.