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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of a View of Lake Como 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of a View of Lake Como’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 49 Verso:
Part of a View of Lake Como 1819
D14237
Turner Bequest CLXXIV 48 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 brief sketch of mountains, part of a larger composition which has spilled over from the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 50 (D14238; Turner Bequest CLXXIV 49). The subject of the view is Lake Como.

Nicola Moorby
January 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Part of a View of Lake Como 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 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-part-of-a-view-of-lake-como-r1142758, accessed 18 September 2024.