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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Hospice and Lake of the Mont Cenis Pass 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Hospice and Lake of the Mont Cenis Pass’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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The Hospice and Lake of the Mont Cenis Pass 1836
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Turner Bequest CCXCIV 83a
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Lake’, ‘Hos’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This very quick sketch of the Mont Cenis Pass, looking across the ‘Lake’ (right) to the ‘Hos’[pice] (centre), was possibly snatched as Turner passed by in a moving coach.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Hospice and Lake of 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-hospice-and-lake-of-the-mont-cenis-pass-r1144915, accessed 20 September 2024.