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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ancona and the Cittadella to the South, from below the Cathedral 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ancona and the Cittadella to the South, from below the Cathedral’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 79 Recto:
Ancona and the Cittadella to the South, from below the Cathedral 1819
D14633
Turner Bequest CLXXVI 75
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 184 mm
Partial watermark ‘Allnutt | 18’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘75’ bottom right (now faint)
Stamped in black ‘CLXXVI – 75’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The Turner scholar C.F. Bell annotated Finberg’s 1909 Inventory entry (‘Ancona’): ‘looking south from the height below the Cathedral’.1 Turner’s viewpoint is the precipitous hillside below the buildings around the north-west side of the Cathedral of San Ciriaco, looking due south to the Cittadella above the far end of Ancona’s waterfront; the fortress and slopes are now heavily wooded.
For Cecilia Powell and James Hamilton’s comments on Turner’s varied and extensive coverage of Ancona, which takes up most of the last quarter or so of this sketchbook, see under folio 69 verso (D14514; Turner Bequest CLXXVI 65a).2

Matthew Imms
March 2017

1
Undated MS note by C.F. Bell (died 1966) in copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, I, p.519.
2
See Powell 1984, pp.92–3, 466 note 109, Powell 1987, pp.25, 202 note 45, and Hamilton 1997, pp.198, 325 note 13.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Ancona and the Cittadella to the South, from below the Cathedral 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-ancona-and-the-cittadella-to-the-south-from-below-the-r1186369, accessed 26 April 2024.