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 > Albano, Nemi, Rome Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Female Figures at Genzano 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Female Figures at Genzano’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Recto:
Three Female Figures at Genzano 1819
D15360
Turner Bequest CLXXXII 35
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Gensano’ and ‘[?Pech...]’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three very rough outline sketches of female figures which Turner has inscribed with the place name ‘Gensano’ (Genzano di Roma), the town on the southern shores of Lake Nemi.

Nicola Moorby
May 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Three Female Figures at Genzano 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-three-female-figures-at-genzano-r1132655, accessed 23 April 2024.