Joseph Mallord William Turner

Hills and Buildings, ?with Trieste Beyond

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
D30122
Turner Bequest CCXCIX 63 a

Catalogue entry

This mountainous, and possibly coastal subject view featuring scattered buildings, drawn with the page turned horizontally, likely shows the Trieste area, and possibly the city itself in the distance, although much urban development since makes the subject and viewpoint uncertain. This is one of a sequence of views in and around the Adriatic port, made working inwards from the back of this sketchbook; see under folio 57 recto (D30109).1
The page number ‘63a’ is inscribed at the corner appears to be in the neat, rounded hand of the Turner scholar C.F. Bell (1871–1966), who contributed to research on the Bequest.
1
See also Powell 1995, pp.66, 81 note 18.
Technical notes:
There is staining at the top 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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