Joseph Mallord William Turner

Distant View of Cortona, from Ossaia

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 × 189 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D16539
Turner Bequest CXCI 29

Catalogue entry

This sketch depicts a distant view of Cortona, a hill town which lies between Perugia and Arezzo on the nineteenth-century road to Florence. In the bottom right-hand corner Turner has annotated the drawing with the location of his viewpoint, ‘Ossaia’, a village which lies a couple of miles to the south. A related study can be seen on folio 28 verso (D16538).

Nicola Moorby
November 2010

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