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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Arch of Augustus at Rimini 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Arch of Augustus at Rimini’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Recto:
The Arch of Augustus at Rimini 1819
D14597
Turner Bequest CLXXVI 56
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 111 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘56’ top right, ascending vertically (now faint)
Stamped in black ‘CLXXVI – 56’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The inner half is a cursory continuation of the horizontal full-page view south-east towards the Arch of Augustus at Rimini on folio 59 verso opposite (D14596; Turner Bequest CLXXVI 55a).
With the page turned vertically, in the outer half the arch is seen in the other direction. None of the surrounding buildings survive, and the bridge in the foreground, now at the end of Via XX Settembre 1870, has been rebuilt as the Ponte Andre Ripa. James Hamilton has noted the ‘great care’ with which Turner recorded the city’s Roman remains;1 for other more detailed views, see under folio 57 verso (D14592; CLXXVI 53a).
Cecilia Powell has commented on the relatively uneventful phase of Turner’s journey between leaving Bologna and reaching Rimini (folios 43 recto–60 verso; D14566–D14598; Turner Bequest CLXXVI 39a–56a);2 for his overall route south-east between Bologna and Ancona, see the sketchbook’s Introduction.

Matthew Imms
March 2017

1
Hamilton 2009, p.42; see also Hamilton 2008, p.44.
2
See Powell 1984, pp.89–90, 465 note 98.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Arch of Augustus at Rimini 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, July 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-arch-of-augustus-at-rimini-r1186333, accessed 26 April 2024.