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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Tour to the Alps 1836 > Val d'Aosta Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches at Chamonix, Looking over La Prieure to Mont Blanc and the Glacier des Bossons 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches at Chamonix, Looking over La Prieure to Mont Blanc and the Glacier des Bossons’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Recto:
Two Sketches at Chamonix, Looking over La Prieure to Mont Blanc and the Glacier des Bossons 1836
D29080
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 25
Pencil on white wove paper, 190 x 113 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘25’ bottom left, inverted, and ‘320’ top left, inverted
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 25’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two sketches, drawn inverted in relation to the main sequence of subjects in the sketchbook:
i. (main sketch) La Prieure, Chamonix, looking down the valley with Mont Blanc and the Glacier des Bossons behind. Turner recorded the same subject in a watercolour study (Tate D36226; Turner Bequest CCCLXIV 364).
ii. (below, right) A tiny thumbnail sketch of the same from a more distant viewpoint.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Sketches at Chamonix, Looking over La Prieure to Mont Blanc and the Glacier des Bossons 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-sketches-at-chamonix-looking-over-la-prieure-to-mont-r1144629, accessed 23 April 2024.