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 View in the Mountains, Savoy 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View in the Mountains, Savoy’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 67 Recto:
View in the Mountains, Savoy 1819
D14100
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 67
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 185 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIII 67’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg tentatively identified this sketch as a view of the Valley of the Dora on the Italian side of the Alps after the Mont Cenis pass.1 It is not clear, however, how he arrived at this identification and the drawing is more likely to represent a view in Savoy on the road to Chambéry or Lanslebourg. The scene is rather rough and schematic although the profile of the mountains has been carefully outlined.

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

1
Finberg 1909, I, p.505.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘View in the Mountains, 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-view-in-the-mountains-savoy-r1142959, accessed 19 September 2024.