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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches in the Vicinity of St Michel de Maurienne 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches in the Vicinity of St Michel de Maurienne’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Recto:
Three Sketches in the Vicinity of St Michel de Maurienne 1836
D29227
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 8
Pencil on white wove paper, 148 x 104 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘St Michel’
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘8’ bottom left, inverted, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ top left, inverted
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 8’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches, drawn inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in the sketchbook and with the page upright:
i. (top) A sharp ridge impending over a narrow mountain valley, probably near St Martin de Maurienne.
ii. The Pas du Roc below St Michel de Maurienne.
iii. (inverted in relation to the main sketch) ‘St Michel’ from a similar, but more distant viewpoint to another sketch in this book (D29224; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 6a), figures in the foreground.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Three Sketches in the Vicinity of St Michel de Maurienne 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-three-sketches-in-the-vicinity-of-st-michel-de-maurienne-r1144779, accessed 21 November 2024.