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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ancona to the North, from below the Cittadella 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ancona to the North, from below the Cittadella’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 86 Recto:
Ancona to the North, from below the Cittadella 1819
D14647
Turner Bequest CLXXVI 82
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 184 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘82’ bottom right (now faint)
Stamped in black ‘CLXXVI – 82’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing continues across folio 85 verso opposite (D14646; Turner Bequest CLXXVI 81a). The Turner scholar C.F. Bell annotated Finberg’s 1909 Inventory entry (‘Ancona’): ‘from the heights near the Citadel’.1 The viewpoint is the Campo Trincerato area east of the fortress, although later trees and buildings make placing the exact spot difficult; on this page the view is north across the city up to the Cathedral of San Ciriaco, with the dome of the church of Santi Pellegrino e Teresa below, and the heights above the sea cliffs to the right beyond scattered buildings in what is now a more built-up area.
As foliated, this panorama is the last of Turner’s Ancona views; for Cecilia Powell and James Hamilton’s comments on Turner’s varied and extensive coverage of the city, which takes up most of the last quarter or so of this sketchbook, see under folio 69 verso (D14514; Turner Bequest CLXXVI 65a).2
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 James Hamilton, Turner: A Life, London 1997, p.198.
Verso:
Blank

Matthew Imms
March 2017

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Ancona to the North, from below the Cittadella 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-to-the-north-from-below-the-cittadella-r1186383, accessed 22 September 2024.