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 Two Sketches of Mountains, ?on the Road to the Pass of Mont Cenis 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of Mountains, ?on the Road to the Pass of Mont Cenis’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Recto:
Two Sketches of Mountains, ?on the Road to the Pass of Mont Cenis 1819
D14088
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 61
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 185 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘[?Cross]’ and ‘Mt C’ within centre of sketch
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIII 61’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The main sketch on this page depicts a view of mountainous landscape. A brief inscription by the artist indicates that it represents a view on the road to the Pass of Mont Cenis in the Cottian Alps. For a general discussion of Turner’s passage through the Alps see the Introduction to the sketchbook.
There is also a further, very rough and schematic drawing of mountains on the far right-hand side of the sheet, parallel with the right-hand edge.

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Two Sketches of Mountains, ?on the Road 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-two-sketches-of-mountains-on-the-road-to-the-pass-of-mont-r1142947, accessed 24 April 2024.