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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Views Approaching Montmélian, Savoy 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Views Approaching Montmélian, Savoy’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 73 Verso:
Three Views Approaching Montmélian, Savoy 1819
D14113
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 73 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 185 x 114 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three views of landscape scenery seen from the road from Chambéry approaching the town of Montmélian. The sketches are rather rough and schematic but visible in the bottom vista is an arched bridge across a river which represents the seventeenth-century Pont de l’Isère to the east of the town. For related views see folios 74–74 verso (D14114–D14115).

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Three Views Approaching Montmélian, 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-three-views-approaching-montmelian-savoy-r1142972, accessed 26 April 2024.