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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View in the Maurienne Valley ?Near St Julien Mont Denis 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View in the Maurienne Valley ?Near St Julien Mont Denis’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Recto:
View in the Maurienne Valley ?Near St Julien Mont Denis 1836
D29235
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 12
Pencil on white wove paper, 148 x 104 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘12’ top right and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 12’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the right-hand part of double-page sketch continued from the facing page (D29234; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 11a) recording a view along a relatively straight stretch of road and flat valley floor, to a village and church spire to the left, with a large jagged mountain behind, possibly the Croix des Têtes.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘View in the Maurienne Valley ?Near St Julien Mont Denis 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-view-in-the-maurienne-valley-near-st-julien-mont-denis-r1144787, accessed 18 May 2024.