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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings (Mostly at Verona) and Mountains 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings (Mostly at Verona) and Mountains’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 64 Recto:
Buildings (Mostly at Verona) and Mountains 1833
D31541
Turner Bequest CCCXI 64
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 184 x 113 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘64’ top right and ‘246’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCXI – 64’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Verona is depicted in the upper sketch, which appears to have been taken from near the Church of San Giorgio in Breda seen partially at right. In the distance is the tower of the Castel San Pietro. Below is a second view of Verona looking up to the Castel San Pietro at left.
These sketches show buildings at Verona. For more views of Verona in this sketchbook see Tate D31531–D31532, D31538–D31540, D31547–D31549, D31551–D31563, D31577–D31578; Turner Bequest CCCXI 58a–59, 62a–63a, 67–68, 69–75, 83–83a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Buildings (Mostly at Verona) and Mountains 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-buildings-mostly-at-verona-and-mountains-r1203555, accessed 05 April 2026.