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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Folio drawings of Switzerland 1802 > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Fourvoirie, Gorges du Guiers Mort, Chartreuse 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Fourvoirie, Gorges du Guiers Mort, Chartreuse’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
?Fourvoirie, Gorges du Guiers Mort, Chartreuse 1802
D04892
Turner Bequest LXXIX R
Pencil and black chalk on greyish buff laid paper, 442 x 594 mm (irregular)
Stamped in black ‘LXXIX R’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch was made on one of the large loose sheets of French paper that Turner took with him to France and Switzerland in 1802. The stream, bridge and village might be compared to subjects in the Chartreuse from the Grenoble sketchbook, for example Tate D04516, D04521; Turner Bequest LXXIV 23, LXXIV Q, probably depicting Fourvoirie in the Gorges du Guiers Mort.
Technical notes:
For the French paper see D04885.
Verso:
Laid down

David Blayney Brown
January 2012

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?Fourvoirie, Gorges du Guiers Mort, Chartreuse 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-fourvoirie-gorges-du-guiers-mort-chartreuse-r1148468, accessed 26 April 2024.