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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Distant View of Cortona 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Distant View of Cortona’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 58 Recto:
?Distant View of Cortona 1819
D16581
Turner Bequest CXCI 58
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘58’ top left, inverted [very faint]
Stamped in black ‘CXCI 58’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject of this sketch is tentatively identified as a distant view of Cortona, an Umbrian hill town which lies between Perugia and Arezzo. For comparable views see folio 28 verso and 29 (D16538 and D16539). Turner also made a small pen-and-ink copy of a vista after John ‘Warwick’ Smith (1749–1831) in the Italian Guide Book sketchbook (Tate D13963; Turner Bequest CLXXII 17).

Nicola Moorby
January 2011

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘?Distant View of Cortona 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2011, 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-distant-view-of-cortona-r1138474, accessed 18 April 2024.