'Ponte Vecchio and the River End of the Uffizi, Florence', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Ponte Vecchio and the River End of the Uffizi, Florence

From Rome and Florence Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CXCI

Date 1819

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 113 x 189 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D16559

Turner Bequest CXCI 41

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 41 Recto:

Ponte Vecchio and the River End of the Uffizi, Florence 1819

D16559
Turner Bequest CXCI 41

Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm

Stamped in black ‘CXCI 41’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Turner’s viewpoint for this sketch is the river end of the Uffizi Gallery, on Lungarno Anna Maria Luisa de’Medici. The vista looks down-river (west) with the Ponte Vecchio spanning the Arno on the left, and the arcade of the Uffizi on the right. In the central foreground is a small terrace with a balustrade.1 Like many of Turner’s sketches of Florence, the drawing is very slight and swiftly executed.

The same terrace can be seen in a later nineteenth-century print by E. Burci, Arno E Ponte Vecchio Dal Terrazzino Degli Uffizi (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).

Verso:
Blank

Nicola Moorby
December 2010

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This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.