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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner An Alpine Church on the ?Road to Mont Cenis; and a View of Mountainous Landscape at Mont Cenis 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘An Alpine Church on the ?Road to Mont Cenis; and a View of Mountainous Landscape at Mont Cenis’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Recto:
An Alpine Church on the ?Road to Mont Cenis; and a View of Mountainous Landscape at Mont Cenis 1819
D14066
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 48
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 185 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘[?Snow]’ and ‘Mt Cenis’ within right-hand sketch, parallel with right-hand edge
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIII 48’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two distinct sketches. The larger study, drawn with the sketchbook held horizontally depicts a church with a distinctive dome and cupola and a second building visible at the top of a hill in the background. The location is currently unidentified and it is not known whether it pertains to Turner’s journey in central France along the River Saône, or alternatively represents a view in the Alps on the road to Mont Cenis. The smaller second sketch on the right-hand side of the sheet, parallel with the edge of the sketchbook is inscribed ‘M[on]t Cenis’ indicating that this view at least relates to the latter. For further sketches and a general discussion of Turner’s passage across the Mont Cenis Pass see the Introduction to the sketchbook.

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘An Alpine Church on the ?Road to Mont Cenis; and a View of Mountainous Landscape at Mont Cenis 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-an-alpine-church-on-the-road-to-mont-cenis-and-a-view-of-r1142924, accessed 24 April 2024.