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 ?Entrance to the Voie Sarde near Les Échelles, Savoy 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Entrance to the Voie Sarde near Les Échelles, Savoy’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 66 Recto:
?Entrance to the Voie Sarde near Les Échelles, Savoy 1819
D14098
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 66
Pencil on white wove paper, 185 x 114 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIII 66’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has used the vertical height of this sketchbook page in order to capture the grand scale of this mountainous or hilly landscape, looking through a deep ravine or valley. The location is tentatively identified as the entrance to the Voie Sarde (Sardinian Way), a historic road which led through a natural canyon in the Chartreuse Mountains near the village of Les Échelles in Savoy. For further discussion of this road see folio 70 (D14106).

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘?Entrance to the Voie Sarde near Les Échelles, 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-entrance-to-the-voie-sarde-near-les-chelles-savoy-r1142957, accessed 23 April 2024.