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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Fort in a Mountain Valley; ?L'Esseillon in the Maurienne Valley 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Fort in a Mountain Valley; ?L'Esseillon in the Maurienne Valley’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 71 Verso:
A Fort in a Mountain Valley; ?L’Esseillon in the Maurienne Valley 1836
D29344
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 70a
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘St Gus [?]’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The fort sketched here, overlooking a wide valley, is perhaps L’Esseillon in the Maurienne Valley. The sketch is very scrappy and evidently taken in haste, possibly from a moving coach. The inscription is unclear but perhaps reads ‘St Gus [?]’. The site may be the same is appears nearby in the sketchbook (D29342; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 69).

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘A Fort in a Mountain Valley; ?L’Esseillon in the Maurienne Valley 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-fort-in-a-mountain-valley-lesseillon-in-the-maurienne-r1144894, accessed 26 April 2024.