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 the Maurienne Valley, Savoy 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches in the Maurienne Valley, Savoy’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 79 Recto:
Three Sketches in the Maurienne Valley, Savoy 1819
D14122
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 79
Pencil on white wove paper, 185 x 114 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘looking down’ top left of middle sketch, and ‘up’ bottom right of bottom sketch
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIII 79’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches of the Maurienne Valley which lies in Savoy approximately twenty miles east of Chambéry. Turner journeyed through the valley on the way to the Pass of Mont Cenis. The precise locations have not been identified but the river visible in the two lower studies is the River Arc and, as the artist’s inscriptions record, one vista depicts the view looking up the valley, whilst the other represents the prospect looking in the opposite direction.

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Three Sketches in the Maurienne Valley, Savoy 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-the-maurienne-valley-savoy-r1142981, accessed 19 April 2024.