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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Ascent to the Pass of Mont Cenis 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Ascent to the Pass of Mont Cenis’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Verso:
?Ascent to the Pass of Mont Cenis 1819
D14043
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 33 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 185 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch depicts a mountainous landscape with a road winding up the slope on the left and a distant peak in the centre of the composition. The drawing is too rough to be conclusively identified but it is likely to represent a view from the ascent to the Pass of Mont Cenis in the French Alps. For a more detailed discussion of the Mont Cenis pass and Turner’s related Alpine sketches see the Introduction to the sketchbook.

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘?Ascent to the Pass of Mont Cenis 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-ascent-to-the-pass-of-mont-cenis-r1142903, accessed 26 April 2024.