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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches: Sallanches in the Arve Valley; Avise in the Val d'Aosta 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches: Sallanches in the Arve Valley; Avise in the Val d'Aosta’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Verso:
Two Sketches: Sallanches in the Arve Valley; Avise in the Val d’Aosta 1836
D29107
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 38a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Salanche’ and ‘Avise’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two sketches, drawn with the page upright and working down from the outer edge:
i. (top) ‘Salanche’ (Sallanches) in the Arve Valley, looking down the river to the Aiguille de Varens.
ii ‘Avise’ in the Val d’Aosta, as seen from the road down to the bridge.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Sketches: Sallanches in the Arve Valley; Avise in the Val d’Aosta 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-sallanches-in-the-arve-valley-avise-in-the-val-r1144654, accessed 20 September 2024.