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 Three Sketches in Savoy; Including ?Aiguebelle and ?Montmélian 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches in Savoy; Including ?Aiguebelle and ?Montmélian’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 76 Recto:
Three Sketches in Savoy; Including ?Aiguebelle and ?Montmélian 1819
D14117
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 76
Pencil on white wove paper, 185 x 114 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Be[?e] H’ bottom left and ‘[?Barn]’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIII 76’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three distinct landscape sketches. The locations are not conclusively identified although they are part of a sequence of views relating to Turner’s travels through Savoy towards the Mont Cenis pass. The middle vista clearly depicts a town situated at the foot of a rocky hill and may represent Aiguebelle (compare folio 77 verso, D14119; Turner Bequest). The bottom drawing meanwhile is tentatively identified as a distant view of Montmélian, see folio 74 (D14114).
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Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Three Sketches in Savoy; Including ?Aiguebelle and ?Montmélian 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-three-sketches-in-savoy-including-aiguebelle-and-montmelian-r1142976, accessed 16 April 2024.