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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin On the Coast of Piedmont c.1794-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin, ‘On the Coast of Piedmont’ c.1794-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Thomas Girtin 1775–1802
Folio 61Recto:
On the Coast of Piedmont c.1794–8
D36474
Turner Bequest CCCLXXIII 61
Pencil and grey and blue wash on paper, 161 x 252 mm mounted on white cartridge paper, 363 x 495 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed in pencil ‘61’ on mount, top right
Inscribed in a later hand in pencil ‘“East of Genoa”’ on mount, bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXXIII – 61’ on mount, bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Compare Beaumont tracing no.47.1 (after John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven); Bell and Girtin cite as the source as Beaumont tracing no.114 (also at Yale).1
1
Bell and Girtin 1935, p.36 under no.63.
Verso:
Blank (laid down); inscribed, probably by Thomas Girtin, in pencil ‘East of Genoa’.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘On the Coast of Piedmont c.1794–8 by Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin’, catalogue entry, April 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-thomas-girtin-on-the-coast-of-piedmont-r1140646, accessed 24 April 2024.