Joseph Mallord William Turner

This page contains four distinct views of the Maurienne Valley in Savoy. Turner travelled through the valley as part of the route between Chambéry and the Mont Cenis pass and made a number of sketches of the passing scenery. The second and third studies from the top are fairly rough, schematic drawings of generic mountainous landscape. The top sketch, however, depicts buildings within a town or village, although the location has not been identified. There appears to be curious vertical structure on the right-hand side of the composition

The drawing at the bottom represents the top of a composition that has spilled over from the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 81 verso (D14127).