Joseph Mallord William Turner

Courmayeur, Towards Mont Blanc and the Aiguille du Géant

1802

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
France, Savoy, Piedmont Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 138 × 215 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D04462
Turner Bequest LXXIII 63 a

Catalogue entry

For Courmayeur, see folio 62 verso of this sketchbook (D04460). The various sketches made nearby in the book are listed with it. Some of the details of the town in this sketch may have been incorporated in Turner’s watercolour St Huges denouncing Vengeance on the Shepherd of Cormayer, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1803 (Sir John Soane’s Museum, London).1

David Blayney Brown
June 2004

1
Wilton 1979, p.341 no.364.

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