J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Sketches of Mountains, ?near the Simplon Pass 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Sketches of Mountains, ?near the Simplon Pass’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 93 Verso:
Four Sketches of Mountains, ?near the Simplon Pass 1819
D14325
Turner Bequest CLXXIV 92 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 186 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘34’ centre right-hand edge of top sketch
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These four mountainous views are too rough to be conclusively identified. However, they probably represent views within the Swiss Alps, on the road to the Simplon Pass. See the introduction to the sketchbook, and also the introduction to the Passage of the Simplon sketchbook (Tate, Turner Bequest CXCIV).

Nicola Moorby
January 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Four Sketches of Mountains, ?near the Simplon Pass 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-four-sketches-of-mountains-near-the-simplon-pass-r1142846, accessed 04 April 2026.