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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches from above Susa, Looking towards San Michele 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches from above Susa, Looking towards San Michele’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 50 Recto:
Two Sketches from above Susa, Looking towards San Michele 1836
D29302
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 49
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘49’ top left, running vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 49’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two sketches:
i. (above) From the Mont Cenis road above Susa, looking along the Susa valley towards the Sacra di San Michele near Sant’Ambrogio at the foot of the valley; inscribed in the distance ‘St Michael’ and in the mid-distance ‘Mont Vanche [?]’. Turner drew the same sketch from a lower viewpoint in sketch (ii) on the facing page of the sketchbook (D29301; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 48a), and the same subject from higher up in the following sketch.
ii. (below, inverted in relation to (i) From the Mont Cenis road above Susa, looking along the Susa valley towards the Sacra di San Michele near Sant’Ambrogio, from a higher viewpoint than sketch (i).

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Sketches from above Susa, Looking towards San Michele 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-from-above-susa-looking-towards-san-michele-r1144852, accessed 22 September 2024.