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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches of Mountains in Savoy; ?Including One of the Voie Sarde 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches of Mountains in Savoy; ?Including One of the Voie Sarde’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Recto:
Three Sketches of Mountains in Savoy; ?Including One of the Voie Sarde 1819
D14102
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 68
Pencil on white wove paper, 185 x 114 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIII 68’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches of a road leading through mountainous scenery. The exact locations are currently unidentified although they form part of a sequence of sketches in the mountains of Savoy on the road to Chambéry and Lanslebourg. The central vista may represent a view of the Voie Sarde (Sardinian Way) near Les Échelles, see folio 70 (D14106).

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Three Sketches of Mountains in Savoy; ?Including One of the Voie Sarde 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-three-sketches-of-mountains-in-savoy-including-one-of-the-r1142961, accessed 20 September 2024.