Joseph Mallord William Turner

Mont Blanc from Fort Roch in the Val d’Aosta

1836

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Val d’Aosta Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 113 × 190 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D41202

Catalogue entry

This side of the page was listed by Finberg as the recto but is now bound as the verso. The sketch, drawn inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in the book, depicts Fort Roch in the Val d’Aosta, looking towards Mont Blanc. The local name for the site is Pierre Taillée. Here, Turner exactly revisits the site of a sketch of 1802 of Fort Roch, Val d’Aosta (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)1 and finished watercolours of Mont Blanc, from Fort Roch, in the Val d’Aosta (Lowell Libson, London, 2013)2 and The Battle of Fort Rock, Val d’Aouste, Piedmont 1796 (Tate D04900).3

David Hill
June 2010

Revised by David Blayney Brown
March 2013

Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.341 no.360.

Wilton 1979, p.341 no.369.

Wilton 1979, p.345 no.399.

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