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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Solitary Figure on a Road ,?the Mont Cenis Pass 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Solitary Figure on a Road ,?the Mont Cenis Pass’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 69 Verso:
A Solitary Figure on a Road ,?the Mont Cenis Pass 1836
D29341
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Watermarked ‘Auondo’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Fransy (?)’ and ‘Le Inse’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This very hasty sketch, possibly taken from a coach, shows a road over a high pass, with a solitary figure. The site may be the Mont Cenis Pass of Mt Cenis and a mountain top in the distance, with a spire, might possibly be identifiable as the Rochemelon, to the south of the pass.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘A Solitary Figure on a Road ,?the Mont Cenis Pass 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-a-solitary-figure-on-a-road-the-mont-cenis-pass-r1144891, accessed 25 April 2024.