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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > France, Savoy, Piedmont Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Trévoux from Open Country 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Trévoux from Open Country’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Verso:
Trévoux from Open Country 1802
D40789
Pencil on grey-buff laid paper, 138 x 215 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Not previously listed or described, this sketch is similar to the inscribed view of Trévoux facing it on folio 34 of this sketchbook (D04426). Turner passed through Trévoux between Mâcon and Lyon. David Hill has speculated that this would have been on the last day of July, several days out of Paris.1

David Blayney Brown
June 2004

1
David Hill, Turner in the Alps: The Journey through France and Switzerland in 1802, London 1992, p.28.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Trévoux from Open Country 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2004, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-trevoux-from-open-country-r1133054, accessed 04 April 2026.