J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > Return from Italy Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views of the ?Alps 1820

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Views of the ?Alps’ 1820
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Recto:
Two Views of the ?Alps 1820
D16671
Turner Bequest CXCII 16
Pencil on white wove paper, 98 x 128 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘B’, ‘Snow [...] Bk ]...]’, ‘Dark’, ‘Rus[...] [?L...]’, ‘Snow’, ‘Fog rising’, ‘Light’, ‘Dark Dim | over Brown’, ‘some Shadows darker than the Blue Sky Cloud warm’, variously within sketches
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘16’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
Stamped in black ‘CXCII 16’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two very rough sketches of mountainous views, probably the Alps. Turner has heavily annotated the sheet with inscriptions describing the colours and atmospheric properties of the landscape including notes concerning ‘Fog rising’ and ‘some Shadows darker than the Blue Sky Cloud warm’.

Nicola Moorby
April 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Two Views of the ?Alps 1820 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-views-of-the-alps-r1142570, accessed 10 May 2024.