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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?A Landing Place on the Ticino River near Boffalora 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?A Landing Place on the Ticino River near Boffalora’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 43 Recto:
?A Landing Place on the Ticino River near Boffalora 1819
D14227
Turner Bequest CLXXIV 42
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 186 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Grass’ bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘42’ top right and ‘284’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIV 42’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch appears to depict a landing place with boats docked beside a grassy riverbank. Although the drawing is too rough to be conclusively identified, it may well represent a view of the River Ticino near the village of Boffalora sopra Ticino, the official border between the regions of Piedmont and Lombardy, which Turner crossed en route between Turin and Milan.1 A detailed sketch of Boffalora can be found on the succeeding page, see folio 43 verso (D14228; Turner Bequest CLXXIV 42a).
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For information about the border crossing at Boffalora see Crimi 2007, p.25.
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Nicola Moorby
January 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘?A Landing Place on the Ticino River near Boffalora 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-landing-place-on-the-ticino-river-near-boffalora-r1142748, accessed 03 April 2026.