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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches: The Croix des Têtes above St Martin; ?View up the Maurienne Valley from near St Martin 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches: The Croix des Têtes above St Martin; ?View up the Maurienne Valley from near St Martin’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Recto:
Two Sketches: The Croix des Têtes above St Martin; ?View up the Maurienne Valley from near St Martin 1836
D29229
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 9
Pencil on white wove paper, 148 x 104 mm
Watermarked ‘[B. Arnos]so’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘x extr’, ‘Snow’ ‘Martin’, ‘arch’
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘9’ top right and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 9’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two sketches, drawn with the page upright:
i. (above) A view in the Maurienne valley near St Martin-de-la-Porte, probably the continuation to the right of a sketch (i) on the facing page (D29228; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 8a), looking up the valley from near St Martin-de-la-la Porte.
ii. (below) The Croix des Têtes above St Martin-de-la-Porte with ‘Snow’ on the peak and the River Arc (inscribed ‘Arche’) in the foreground.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Sketches: The Croix des Têtes above St Martin; ?View up the Maurienne Valley from near St Martin 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-the-croix-des-tetes-above-st-martin-view-up-the-r1144781, accessed 13 May 2024.