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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View on Lake Como 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View on Lake Como’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Recto:
View on Lake Como 1819
D14260
Turner Bequest CLXXIV 60
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 186 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘[?wall]’ and ‘[...]’ bottom centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘60’ bottom left, inverted and ‘284’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIV 60’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page relates to a series of sketches of Lake Como. The drawing is too rough to be identified but it appears to show a view from the lakeside looking towards a distant peninsula. On the far right-hand side of the sheet is a small part of the composition from the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 60 verso (D14259; Turner Bequest CLXXIV 59a).
For a discussion of Turner’s sketches of Lake Como see folio 48 (D14234; Turner Bequest CLXXIV 47).

Nicola Moorby
January 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘View on 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-view-on-lake-como-r1142781, accessed 26 April 2024.