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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Tour to the Alps 1836 > Separate Sheets Associated with the 1836 ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Mont Blanc and the Castle of St Michel from above Servoz 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mont Blanc and the Castle of St Michel from above Servoz’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Mont Blanc and the Castle of St Michel from above Servoz 1836
D34186
Turner Bequest CCCXLII 2
Chalk and pencil on paper, 237 x 308 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCCXLII 2’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner made this sketch during his 1836 tour of the Alps, which he made in the company of the wealthy Scottish landowner, H.A.J. Munro of Novar; for more information about the tour, see the Introduction to this section.
This sketch, which looks towards Mont Blanc, was made from a viewpoint above the French village of Servoz. The Turner scholar David Hill noted that the view – which can still be reached by visiting the public footpath above Vieux Servoz – remains almost unchanged.1
1
Hill 2000, p.272.
Technical notes:
For information about the paper support, see the Technical Notes section of the entry for D34195 (Turner Bequest CCCXLII 11).
Verso:
See the separate entry for D40346.

Elizabeth Jacklin
August 2019

How to cite

Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘Mont Blanc and the Castle of St Michel from above Servoz 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2019, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-mont-blanc-and-the-castle-of-st-michel-from-above-servoz-r1204582, accessed 18 May 2024.