Joseph Mallord William Turner

?Distant View of Cortona

1819

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Rome and Florence Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 113 x 189 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D16581
Turner Bequest CXCI 58

Catalogue entry

The subject of this sketch is tentatively identified as a distant view of Cortona, an Umbrian hill town which lies between Perugia and Arezzo. For comparable views see folio 28 verso and 29 (D16538 and D16539). Turner also made a small pen-and-ink copy of a vista after John ‘Warwick’ Smith (1749–1831) in the Italian Guide Book sketchbook (Tate D13963; Turner Bequest CLXXII 17).

Nicola Moorby
January 2011

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