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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Valley of the Toce River, between Domodossola and Vogogna 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Valley of the Toce River, between Domodossola and Vogogna’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 42 Recto:
?Valley of the Toce River, between Domodossola and Vogogna 1819
D16966
Turner Bequest CXCIV 42
Pencil on white wove paper, 121 x 195 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘yello’ and ‘[?River] bottom centre left
Stamped in black ‘CXCIV 42’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The location of this sketch is currently unidentified, although it appears to depict a valley with two figures seated beside a shallow river or stream. Federico Crimi has tentatively suggested that it may represent a view within the valley of the Toce River between Domodossola and Vogogna.1

Nicola Moorby
May 2011

1
Federico Crimi, unpublished notes.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘?Valley of the Toce River, between Domodossola and Vogogna 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2011, 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-the-toce-river-between-domodossola-and-vogogna-r1132841, accessed 28 June 2025.