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

This sketch depicts Castiglion Fiorentino, a town on the nineteenth-century route to Florence between Cortona and Arezzo. The tallest structure visible near the centre is the square tower and projecting bell-tower of the fourteenth-century fortress known as the ‘Cassero’. Turner’s viewpoint is from the outskirts to the north-east and the composition continues on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread with a distant view of the nearby castle of Montecchio Vesponi, a couple of miles to the south, see folio 27 (D15635). For further sketches see folio 1 verso and 90 verso (D16487 and D16638).