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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > Paris, France, Savoy 2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Mountains, near Mont Cenis 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Mountains, near Mont Cenis’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 49 Recto:
?Mountains, near Mont Cenis 1819
D14068
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 49
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 185 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIII 49’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch appears to depict mountainous landscape although the details are too rough to be conclusively identified and the precise location is unknown.

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘?Mountains, near 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-mountains-near-mont-cenis-r1142926, accessed 25 April 2024.