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 The Arve Valley from the Servoz Road, towards the Pointe Percée Range 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Arve Valley from the Servoz Road, towards the Pointe Percée Range’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 62 Recto:
The Arve Valley from the Servoz Road, towards the Pointe Percée Range 1802
D04459
Turner Bequest LXXIII 62
Pencil on grey-buff laid paper, 138 x 215 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘I think St Mic’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXIII 62’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
David Hill, in correspondence with the author,1 has identified this view, which is of a very similar prospect towards the Pointe Percée as that on folio 60 of this sketchbook (D04457). The inscription refers to the Tour de St Michel, near Servoz, for which see folio 1 (D04393) and also folios 62 and 63 (D04459, D04461). For another view of the Pointe Percée, taken from near Geneva, see folio 4 (D04396).

David Blayney Brown
June 2004

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

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘The Arve Valley from the Servoz Road, towards the Pointe Percée Range 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-the-arve-valley-from-the-servoz-road-towards-the-pointe-r1133088, accessed 26 April 2024.