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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > Paris, France, Savoy 2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Lanslebourg, on the Road to the Pass of Mont Cenis 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lanslebourg, on the Road to the Pass of Mont Cenis’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Verso:
Lanslebourg, on the Road to the Pass of Mont Cenis 1819
D14103
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 68 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 185 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Straw Hat | [?Big]’, ‘Launslebourg’ and ‘Timber wood’ left-hand edge of main sketch
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two sketches, the largest of which is a view of Lanslebourg-Mont-Cenis, a town in Savoy at the foot of the Col du Mont Cenis. Turner’s viewpoint is from the west looking towards the town with the old church (now a museum) near the centre. The composition continues on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 69 (D14104).
Also on the page is a separate, smaller sketch of mountains, parallel with the left-hand edge of the sketchbook.

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Lanslebourg, on the Road to the Pass of 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-lanslebourg-on-the-road-to-the-pass-of-mont-cenis-r1142962, accessed 19 April 2024.