In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Graphite and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 311 × 585 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D25155
Turner Bequest CCLXIII 33
Display caption
The setting shown in this richly coloured unfinished watercolour has so far not been identified. It may relate to other studies that Turner made in Northern
Italy and near the Mediterranean coast. The distant mountains could well be
those around the lakes of Garda or
Como, which Turner had visited in 1819.
The central area of the foreground of this represents the preliminary structures of a town or city. This gives some idea of how Turner steadily built up the details of his finished watercolours.
Gallery label, August 2004
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