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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Old Post House on the Mont Cenis Pass 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Old Post House on the Mont Cenis Pass’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 87 Verso:
The Old Post House on the Mont Cenis Pass 1836
D29371
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 86a
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The old post house on the Mont Cenis Pass, seen in this sketch, still stands, just at the beginning of the descent from the Col towards Lanslebourg.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Old Post House 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-the-old-post-house-on-the-mont-cenis-pass-r1144921, accessed 25 April 2024.