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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > Paris, France, Savoy 2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Termignon 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Termignon’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 70 Verso:
Termignon 1819
D14107
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 70 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 185 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Term[?arian] Mt C’ bottom left and ‘W’ within sketch, top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As Turner’s inscription indicates, the subject of this sketch is Termignon, a village in the Cottian Alps, approximately three miles west of Lanslebourg-Mont-Cenis and the Mont Cenis pass.1 The study has been drawn from the east looking west towards the baroque Church of Notre-Dame-de l’Assomption and a bridge over the River Arc which winds off to the left of the composition. For a general discussion of Turner’s passage through the Alps see the Introduction to the sketchbook.
A later sketch relating to Termignon dates from the artist’s second tour of Italy in 1828–9 and can be found in the Rome, Turin, Milan sketchbook (Tate D21709; Turner Bequest CCXXXV 24).

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

1
First tentatively suggested by Finberg 1909, I, p.506.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Termignon 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-termignon-r1142966, accessed 26 April 2024.