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 > Val d'Aosta Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Mont Blanc from Fort Roch in the Val d'Aosta 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mont Blanc from Fort Roch in the Val d'Aosta’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 92 Verso:
Mont Blanc from Fort Roch in the Val d’Aosta 1836
D41202
Turner Bequest 92
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed by unknown hand in pencil with Turner Bequest number ‘CCXCIII/92’, top right and ‘42 [?]’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This side of the page was listed by Finberg as the recto but is now bound as the verso. The sketch, drawn inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in the book, depicts Fort Roch in the Val d’Aosta, looking towards Mont Blanc. The local name for the site is Pierre Taillée. Here, Turner exactly revisits the site of a sketch of 1802 of Fort Roch, Val d’Aosta (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)1 and finished watercolours of Mont Blanc, from Fort Roch, in the Val d’Aosta (Lowell Libson, London, 2013)2 and The Battle of Fort Rock, Val d’Aouste, Piedmont 1796 (Tate D04900).3

David Hill
June 2010

Revised by David Blayney Brown
March 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.341 no.360.
2
Wilton 1979, p.341 no.369.
3
Wilton 1979, p.345 no.399.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Mont Blanc from Fort Roch in the Val d’Aosta 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, revised by David Blayney Brown, March 2013, 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-mont-blanc-from-fort-roch-in-the-val-daosta-r1144761, accessed 26 January 2025.