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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Descent from the Pass of the Apennines with Distant View of Foligno 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Descent from the Pass of the Apennines with Distant View of Foligno’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Recto:
Descent from the Pass of the Apennines with Distant View of Foligno 1819
D14714
Turner Bequest CLXXVII 32
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 186 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Ov’ left-hand edge and ‘Ol’ within sketch of tree bottom left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘32’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXVII 32’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s route to Rome took him through the passage of the Apennines. The subject of this sketch is a point near the village of Colle San Lorenzo, where the mountains open up and offer a panoramic view of the valley below with the town of Foligno. Along the top of the page the artist has drawn a separate sketch of the line of buildings in the historical centre of the town, as seen from a distance. In the foreground is a monument or fountain of some description, with a moulded top.

Nicola Moorby
November 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Descent from the Pass of the Apennines with Distant View of Foligno 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 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-descent-from-the-pass-of-the-apennines-with-distant-view-of-r1138877, accessed 25 April 2024.