Joseph Mallord William Turner

Coastal Views from the Gulf of Trieste

1840

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Trieste, Graz and Danube Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 127 × 198 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D30126
Turner Bequest CCXCIX 65 a

Catalogue entry

With the page turned horizontally, there are several bands of landscape studies, showing hills along the coastline of the Gulf of Trieste as Turner travelled east by sea from Venice; one also shows what is likely a small coastal fort. The profile at the outer edge is inverted relative to the others, and includes a small boat sailing past.

These are among a sequence of views in and around the Adriatic port city of Trieste, made working inwards from the back of this sketchbook; see under folio 57 recto (D30109).1

See also Powell 1995, pp.66, 81 note 18.

Technical notes:

There is staining at the bottom centre from the leather pencil loop secured under the rear paste-down (D30129; Turner Bequest CCXCIX 67).

Matthew Imms
September 2018

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