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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Tour to the Alps 1836 > Fort Bard Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Aosta, the Porta Praetoria from the Via Sant Anselmo 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Aosta, the Porta Praetoria from the Via Sant Anselmo’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 71 Recto:
Aosta, the Porta Praetoria from the Via Sant Anselmo 1836
D29343
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 70
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘70’ top left, running vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 70’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The Roman gate, the Porta Praetoria, and walls of Aosta are seen here from the Via Sant’Anselmo leading into the city; see also, from this sketchbook, D29353; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 76.

David Hill
June 2010

Revised by David Blayney Brown
August 2013

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Aosta, the Porta Praetoria from the Via Sant Anselmo 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, revised by David Blayney Brown, August 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-aosta-the-porta-praetoria-from-the-via-sant-anselmo-r1144893, accessed 20 September 2024.