Joseph Mallord William Turner

Various Sketches; Including a Distant View of an ?Italian City

1820

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Return from Italy Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 128 × 98 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D40993

Catalogue entry

Turner has used the inside front cover of this sketchbook to make a number of rough sketches of various subjects including a boat (top right), a couple of landscape compositions depicting a lake or bay, and a distant view of a city from the ‘walls’. The location of the latter is currently unidentified although it bears the appearance of being in Italy.

Nicola Moorby
April 2013

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