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 La Prieure, Chamonix, Looking to the Glacier du Bois 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘La Prieure, Chamonix, Looking to the Glacier du Bois’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 36 Recto:
La Prieure, Chamonix, Looking to the Glacier du Bois 1836
D29102
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 36
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘36’ bottom left, inverted, and ‘320’ top left, inverted
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 36’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in this sketchbook, this sketch records La Prieure at Chamonix, looking up the Arve Valley to the Glacier du Bois and the source of the River Arveyron. Turner sketched the same material from further up the valley in Tate D34287; Turner Bequest CCCXLII 83, and from above Chamonix in a preceding sketch in the present sketchbook (D29082; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 26).

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘La Prieure, Chamonix, Looking to the Glacier du Bois 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-la-prieure-chamonix-looking-to-the-glacier-du-bois-r1144649, accessed 19 April 2024.