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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Torre delle Cornacchie on the Via Cassia, North of Rome 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Torre delle Cornacchie on the Via Cassia, North of Rome’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 86 Verso:
The Torre delle Cornacchie on the Via Cassia, North of Rome 1819
D14822
Turner Bequest CLXXVII 86 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 186 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject of this inverted sketch is the Torre delle Cornacchie (Tower of Crows), a medieval tower that stands twenty metres high near La Storta on the Via Cassia, just outside of Rome.1 Turner’s sketch shows the road curving across the foreground with the tower on the right-hand side before descending gently on the approach towards the city. See also folios 86 and 89 verso (D14821 and D14827).
 

Nicola Moorby
November 2008

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See http://www.torredellecornacchie.it/index2.html, accessed November 2008.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘The Torre delle Cornacchie on the Via Cassia, North of Rome 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-the-torre-delle-cornacchie-on-the-via-cassia-north-of-rome-r1138985, accessed 23 September 2024.