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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of the ?Alps near Susa 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of the ?Alps near Susa’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 41 Verso:
Two Sketches of the ?Alps near Susa 1819
D14055
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 41 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 185 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘V[...]’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two very rough sketches depicting mountainous scenery. The drawings are too slight to be conclusively identified although they are likely to depict views within the Alps near Susa, on the Franco-Italian border (see folio 43, D14057).

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Two Sketches of the ?Alps near Susa 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-two-sketches-of-the-alps-near-susa-r1142913, accessed 25 April 2024.