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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The Mont Cenis Pass 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?The Mont Cenis Pass’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 78 Verso:
?The Mont Cenis Pass 1836
D29355
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 77a
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch of a high mountain pass, with snow-poles to the left of the road and a refuge to the right, was probably made near the summit of the Mont Cenis road. The tall pole to the left, with a braced cross-bar, might mark the summit itself.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘?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-the-mont-cenis-pass-r1144905, accessed 19 September 2024.