Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘No.2’ top right and ‘Gensarno’, ‘[?Grid...] Corridor L [...] | [?hopin]’ top right and ‘[?Black | C... Limp]’ underneath. Also ‘[?New B...]’ underneath sketch
Turner has used the inside back cover of the sketchbook to draw a sketch of an interior which he has labelled ‘Gensarno’, i.e. the town of Genzano near Lake Nemi. The rough nature of the drawing makes the subject difficult to identify but it appears to show a room seen through arches, with people sitting around a table. Turner made several detailed and intimate sketches in the town which suggests he might have broken his journey here to eat and rest. See also folios 35, 88 verso, 89 and 89 verso (
D15360,
D15464,
D15465,
D15466; Turner Bequest CLXXXII 87a, 88, 88a).
How to cite
Nicola Moorby, ‘Interior 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-interior-at-genzano-r1132762, accessed 24 April 2024.
