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 Four Views in the Maurienne Valley, Savoy 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Views in the Maurienne Valley, Savoy’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 81 Recto:
Four Views in the Maurienne Valley, Savoy 1819
D14126
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 81
Pencil on white wove paper, 185 x 114 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIII 81’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains four distinct views of the Maurienne Valley in Savoy. Turner travelled through the valley as part of the route between Chambéry and the Mont Cenis pass and made a number of sketches of the passing scenery. The second and third studies from the top are fairly rough, schematic drawings of generic mountainous landscape. The top sketch, however, depicts buildings within a town or village, although the location has not been identified. There appears to be curious vertical structure on the right-hand side of the composition
The drawing at the bottom represents the top of a composition that has spilled over from the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 81 verso (D14127).

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Four Views 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-four-views-in-the-maurienne-valley-savoy-r1142985, accessed 21 September 2024.