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 Tour de St Michel, from near Servoz 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Tour de St Michel, from near Servoz’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 63 Recto:
The Tour de St Michel, from near Servoz 1802
D04461
Turner Bequest LXXIII 63
Pencil, splashed with water on grey-buff laid paper, 138 x 215 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Castle. Entrance | Valley of Chamonix’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXIII 63’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For the Tour de St Michel, see folios 1 and 61 of this sketchbook (D04393, D04458). As noted by David Hill in correspondence with the author,1 this sketch was made as Turner began his ascent to the village of Les Houches and the Chamonix valley. Turner made further sketches near Les Houches on folios 64 and 72 verso (D04463, D04480), and a drawing in his larger St Gothard and Mont Blanc sketchbook (Tate D04606; Turner Bequest LXXV 14).

David Blayney Brown
June 2004

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

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘The Tour de St Michel, from near Servoz 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-tour-de-st-michel-from-near-servoz-r1133090, accessed 27 April 2024.