Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Cupola of the Basilica of San Lorenzo, Milan

1819

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Milan to Venice Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 112 × 185 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D14341
Turner Bequest CLXXV 9 a

Catalogue entry

The Turner scholar C.F. Bell elaborated on Finberg’s 1909 Inventory entry (‘Roman Colonnade, San Lorenzo’): ‘Corso di Porta Ticinese, Milan’.1 Ian Warrell has noted the subject here as the cupola of the Basilica of San Lorenzo;2 the disjointed detail is effectively a continuation upwards from the full-page view on folio 10 recto opposite (D14342) showing the adjacent Roman colonnade along the Corso west of the church. At the gutter is a slight lateral continuation of that sketch.

See under folio 2 recto (D14328) for other Milan views.

Matthew Imms
March 2017

1

Undated MS note by C.F. Bell (died 1966) in copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, I, p.512.

2

Undated notes by Ian Warrell in Tate catalogue files.

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