J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Bridge, ?between Bologna and Forlì; a Line of Hills 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Bridge, ?between Bologna and Forlì; a Line of Hills’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Verso:
A Bridge, ?between Bologna and Forlì; a Line of Hills 1819
D14571
Turner Bequest CLXXVI 41a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 184 mm
Partial watermark ‘Allnutt | 18’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There are other sketches of unidentified humpbacked bridges on folios 43 recto and verso, and 44 recto (D14566, D14567, D14568; Turner Bequest CLXXVI 39, 39a, 40), at least some possibly showing aspects of the same structure. For Turner’s route south-east between Bologna and Ancona, see the sketchbook’s Introduction.
Cecilia Powell has commented on the relatively uneventful phase of Turner’s journey between leaving Bologna and reaching Rimini (folios 43 recto–60 verso; D14566–D14598; Turner Bequest CLXXVI 39a–56a);1 for his overall route south-east between Bologna and Ancona, see the sketchbook’s Introduction.

Matthew Imms
March 2017

1
See Powell 1984, pp.89–90, 465 note 98.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Bridge, ?between Bologna and Forlì; a Line of Hills 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, July 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-bridge-between-bologna-and-forli-a-line-of-hills-r1186307, accessed 05 April 2026.