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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Part of a View of the Road to the Pass of Mont Cenis; and Mountains 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Part of a View of the Road to the Pass of Mont Cenis; and Mountains’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Recto:
?Part of a View of the Road to the Pass of Mont Cenis; and Mountains 1819
D14084
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 59
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 185 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘M C[?is]’ centre left
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIII 59’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two distinct sketches. On the left-hand side of the sheet is part of a view of mountains which has spilled over from the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 58 verso (D14083). There is a faint inscription on this side of the composition which may indicate that the location is the pass of Mont Cenis in the Cottian Alps. On the right-hand side is a separate drawing of mountains. For a general discussion of Turner’s passage through the Alps see the Introduction to the sketchbook.

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘?Part of a View of the Road to the Pass of Mont Cenis; and Mountains 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-part-of-a-view-of-the-road-to-the-pass-of-mont-cenis-and-r1142943, accessed 24 April 2024.