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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches on the Mont Cenis Pass 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches on the Mont Cenis Pass’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 83 Verso:
Three Sketches on the Mont Cenis Pass 1836
D29363
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 82a
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Water’, ‘Hos’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches:
i. (top left) A view across ‘Water’, the lake of Mont Cenis to the ‘Hos’[pice].
ii. (bottom left) The hospice and lake of the Mont Cenis Pass.
iii. (right, drawn with the page upright) A mountain panorama, with a building on an eminence
Finberg records an inscription by Turner noting ‘Mt Cenis’ but this is not apparent today.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Three Sketches on the Mont Cenis Pass 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-three-sketches-on-the-mont-cenis-pass-r1144913, accessed 25 April 2024.