Joseph Mallord William Turner

Two Sketches near St Martin in the Maurienne Valley

1836

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Fort Bard Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 148 x 104 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D29233
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 11

Catalogue entry

This page contains two sketches, drawn with the page upright:
i. (top) A fort on an eminence backed by jagged crags, inscribed in the left foreground ‘Slate Tor [?]’.
ii. A view towards ‘St Martin’ in the Maurienne Valley.

David Hill
June 2010

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