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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > Paris, France, Savoy 2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches of Mountains, ?near Mont Cenis 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches of Mountains, ?near Mont Cenis’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 49 Verso:
Three Sketches of Mountains, ?near Mont Cenis 1819
D14069
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 49 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 185 x 114 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘[?Carmi toute Heart | toute Core’ and ‘[?Volari]’ bottom of upper sketch
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches of mountainous landscape. The drawings are too rough to be conclusively identified but they likely to relate to Turner’s journey through the Mont Cenis pass, see the Introduction to the sketchbook. Also on the sheet are some inscriptions by the artist which appear to be notes of French and Italian phrases.

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Three Sketches of Mountains, ?near Mont Cenis 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-three-sketches-of-mountains-near-mont-cenis-r1142927, accessed 08 February 2025.