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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Verona 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Verona’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 71 Verso:
Verona 1833
D31556
Turner Bequest CCCXI 71a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 113 x 184 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These two views show Verona, probably taken from the heights around the Castel San Pietro. The castle wall is shown in the upper sketch while the lower looks west, up the Adige, with the Basilica di San Zeno and today’s Ponte di Risorgimento at left.

For more views of Verona in this sketchbook see Tate D31531–D31532, D31538–D31541, D31547–D31549, D31551–D31563, D31577–D31578; Turner Bequest CCCXI 58a–59, 62a–64, 67–68, 69–75, 83–83a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Verona 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-verona-r1203570, accessed 24 June 2025.