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 A Ruined Tower at Nangy, Mont Blanc in the Distance 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Ruined Tower at Nangy, Mont Blanc in the Distance’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Recto:
A Ruined Tower at Nangy, Mont Blanc in the Distance 1802
D04439
Turner Bequest LXXIII 45
Pencil, lightly touched with white chalk on grey-buff laid paper, 138 x 215 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Nangee’ lower right of centre
Stamped in black ‘LXXIII 45’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner passed through Nangy as he followed the Arve valley from Geneva to Bonneville,
for which see folio 46 of this sketchbook (D04440).
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David Blayney Brown
June 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Ruined Tower at Nangy, Mont Blanc in the Distance 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-a-ruined-tower-at-nangy-mont-blanc-in-the-distance-r1133068, accessed 26 April 2024.