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 The River Arc in the Maurienne Valley, Savoy 1819

Image 1 of 2
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The River Arc in the Maurienne Valley, Savoy’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 79 Verso:
The River Arc in the Maurienne Valley, Savoy 1819
D14123
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 79 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 185 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch represents a view in the Maurienne Valley which lies in Savoy approximately twenty miles east of Chambéry. Turner journeyed through the valley on the way to the Pass of Mont Cenis. The location is not conclusively identified but the river winding its way through the heart of the composition is the River Arc.

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘The River Arc in the Maurienne Valley, 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-the-river-arc-in-the-maurienne-valley-savoy-r1142982, accessed 25 April 2024.