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 Mont Blanc, the Brenva Glacier and the Entrance to the Allée Blanche from near Entreves 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mont Blanc, the Brenva Glacier and the Entrance to the Allée Blanche from near Entreves’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 67 Verso:
Mont Blanc, the Brenva Glacier and the Entrance to the Allée Blanche from near Entreves 1802
D04470
Turner Bequest LXXIII 67a
Pencil, lightly touched with white chalk on grey-buff laid paper, 215 x 138 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Mt B from above Cormayer’, and in ink ‘F’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXIII 67a’ top right, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch, made with the sketchbook inverted, extends across folio 68 (D04471). For the subject, and related works, see folios 66 verso–67 of this sketchbook (D04468–D04469). Turner returned to precisely the same spot as in the present drawing during his tour of the Val d’Aosta in 1836, when he made a watercolour (Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead).1

David Blayney Brown
June 2004

1
Wilton 1979, p.473, no.1444.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Mont Blanc, the Brenva Glacier and the Entrance to the Allée Blanche from near Entreves 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-mont-blanc-the-brenva-glacier-and-the-entrance-to-the-allee-r1133099, accessed 23 September 2024.