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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View on Lake Como; Church of Santi Quirico e Giulitta, Carate Urio 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View on Lake Como; Church of Santi Quirico e Giulitta, Carate Urio’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 54 Verso:
View on Lake Como; Church of Santi Quirico e Giulitta, Carate Urio 1819
D14247
Turner Bequest CLXXIV 53 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 186 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Federico Crimi has identified the subject of this sketch as the Church of Santi Quirico e Giulitta which stands near the western shore of Lake Como in the town of Carate Urio.1 The drawing is one of a series of studies recording a circular expedition by boat and on foot between Como and Lario and this view appears to relate to the return leg of the journey. A more detailed study can be seen on folio 55 (D14248; Turner Bequest CLXXIV 54).
For further sketches of Lake Como see folio 48 (D14234; Turner Bequest CLXXIV 47).

Nicola Moorby
January 2013

1
Crimi 2009, p.39 note 8.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘View on Lake Como; Church of Santi Quirico e Giulitta, Carate Urio 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-view-on-lake-como-church-of-santi-quirico-e-giulitta-carate-r1142768, accessed 02 August 2025.