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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of a Distant View of Moncalieri, from the East 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of a Distant View of Moncalieri, from the East’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Verso:
Part of a Distant View of Moncalieri, from the East 1819
D14171
Turner Bequest CLXXIV 13 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 186 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains a very slight continuation of the landscape composition on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 15 (D14172; Turner Bequest CLXXIV 14). The sketch represents a distant view of the town of Moncalieri from the east, with the Alps rising in the distance.

Nicola Moorby
December 2012

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Part of a Distant View of Moncalieri, from the East 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2012, 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-part-of-a-distant-view-of-moncalieri-from-the-east-r1142694, accessed 23 April 2024.