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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of Part of the Façade of the ?Duomo, Parma 1820

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study of Part of the Façade of the ?Duomo, Parma’ 1820
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 62 Verso:
Study of Part of the Façade of the ?Duomo, Parma 1820
D16751
Turner Bequest CXCII 61 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 128 x 98 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘[?Dark] Col 1’ and ‘C[...]’ centre right, parallel with right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains a very rough and partial study of the façade of an Italian building. The subject, with its successive tiers of arcaded loggia, is tentatively identified as the front of the Duomo (cathedral) in Parma, see folio 8 verso (D16656).

Nicola Moorby
April 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Study of Part of the Façade of the ?Duomo, Parma 1820 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-study-of-part-of-the-facade-of-the-duomo-parma-r1142651, accessed 27 April 2024.