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 Chamonix Road near Les Houches Towards Servoz 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Arve Valley, from the Chamonix Road near Les Houches Towards Servoz’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 64 Recto:
The Arve Valley, from the Chamonix Road near Les Houches Towards Servoz 1802
D04463
Turner Bequest LXXIII 64
Pencil on grey-buff laid paper, 138 x 215 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Entrance to Cham’ bottom right
Stamped in black bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Les Houches, where Turner began his ascent into the Chamonix valley, see especially folio 63 of this sketchbook (D04461); a further sketch is on folio 72 verso (D04480). As identified by David Hill in correspondence with the author,1 this sketch was made nearby, looking back the way Turner had come, along the Arve valley from Servoz.

David Blayney Brown
June 2004

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

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘The Arve Valley, from the Chamonix Road near Les Houches Towards 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-arve-valley-from-the-chamonix-road-near-les-houches-r1133092, accessed 20 September 2024.