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 > Paris, France, Savoy 2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Road through Mountains in Savoy 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Road through Mountains in Savoy’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Verso:
Road through Mountains in Savoy 1819
D14089
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 61 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 185 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Girl with goats’ and ‘Road’ right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch depicts a vista looking across a mountainous valley from a high vantage point on steep, rocky slopes. There appears to be a small roadside monument or altar near the top right-hand corner. The precise location remains unidentified although it is likely to be somewhere in Savoy, on the road to the Mont Cenis pass. Part of the composition spills over onto the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 62 (D14090).

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Road through Mountains in Savoy 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-road-through-mountains-in-savoy-r1142948, accessed 26 April 2024.