Joseph Mallord William Turner

Near the Grande Chartreuse

1802

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Grenoble Sketchbook
Medium
Chalk, gouache and graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 283 x 214 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D04530
Turner Bequest LXXIV 37

Catalogue entry

For Turner’s visit to the Grande Chartreuse in 1802 see Introduction to the sketchbook.
John Ruskin’s title for this drawing is retained here.
Verso:
Blank, inscribed perhaps by a later hand in pencil ‘17’

David Blayney Brown
September 2011

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