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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > France, Savoy, Piedmont Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Valley of Contamines from the Servoz Road 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Valley of Contamines from the Servoz Road’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Recto:
Valley of Contamines from the Servoz Road 1802
D04451
Turner Bequest LXXIII 56
Pencil on grey-buff laid paper, 138 x 215 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Bon homme’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXIII 56’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For the old Servoz road, from which this view into the Contamines valley and towards the route to the Col du ‘Bonhomme’ – identified by David Hill in correspondence with the author1 – was taken, see inside front cover and folios 1, 54 and 55 of this sketchbook (D04393, D04449, D04450). Further sketches from the road in the book are listed under the last of these.

David Blayney Brown
June 2004

1
Letter to David Blayney Brown, 4 April 2004, Tate catalogue files.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Valley of Contamines from the Servoz Road 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-valley-of-contamines-from-the-servoz-road-r1133080, accessed 13 December 2025.