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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Grenoble Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Turner's Cabriolet outside the Post House, Voreppe; the Grand Aiguille beyond 1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Turner's Cabriolet outside the Post House, Voreppe; the Grand Aiguille beyond’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Turner’s Cabriolet outside the Post House, Voreppe; the Grand Aiguille beyond 1802
D04515
Turner Bequest LXXIV 22
Pencil, black chalk and white gouache on greyish-buff laid paper, 219 x 253 mm
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s label for this drawing is inscribed ‘Entrance to the Petit Chartreuse with Voreppe Post House’. The cabriolet in which he travelled in 1802 (see also in D40208 from this sketchbook) is parked outside the posting inn on the left, on the side of the road. David Hill suggests that its presence indicates an overnight stop en route from Lyons. The Grande Aiguille rises in the background. For another view from the same road, seemingly also at Voreppe, from this series see D04517; Turner Bequest LXXIV 24.
Verso:
Laid down

David Blayney Brown
September 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Turner’s Cabriolet outside the Post House, Voreppe; the Grand Aiguille beyond 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-turners-cabriolet-outside-the-post-house-voreppe-the-grand-r1146383, accessed 24 November 2024.