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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Tour to the Alps 1836 > Val d'Aosta Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches: Mont Blanc from Chamonix and Mont Blanc from near Les Houches 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches: Mont Blanc from Chamonix and Mont Blanc from near Les Houches’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Recto:
Two Sketches: Mont Blanc from Chamonix and Mont Blanc from near Les Houches 1836
D29084
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 27
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘27’ top right and ‘320’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 27’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two sketches:
i. (main sketch to left) The right half of a two-part panorama of Mont Blanc from Chamonix, looking over the valley to the Glacier des Bossons and the Aiguille du Gouter, continued from D29083; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 26a, opposite. The view is similar to that on the preceding double-page spread, D29081–D29082; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 25a–26, but from a lower viewpoint in the town.
ii. (to the right, drawn with the page in the upright position) Looking up the Arve Valley to Mont Blanc, perhaps from near Les Houches.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Sketches: Mont Blanc from Chamonix and Mont Blanc from near Les Houches 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-sketches-mont-blanc-from-chamonix-and-mont-blanc-from-r1144633, accessed 26 April 2024.