Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Interior of Milan Cathedral

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: D14345
Turner Bequest CLXXV 13

Catalogue entry

The Turner scholar C.F. Bell annotated Finberg’s 1909 Inventory entry (‘Interior of Milan Cathedral’): ‘South aisle looking East’.1 The tracery above the crossing is seen through the forest of Gothic pillars at the centre. There is a similar study on folio 12 recto (D14344).

See under folio 2 recto (D14328), showing the west front of the cathedral, for other Milan views.

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

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Matthew Imms
March 2017

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