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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Second Italian Tour 1828-9 > Marseilles to Genoa Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner San Remo, with the Church of San Siro; a Distant View of Bordighera 1828

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘San Remo, with the Church of San Siro; a Distant View of Bordighera’ 1828
Folio 39 Verso:
San Remo, with the Church of San Siro; a Distant View of Bordighera 1828
D21208
Turner Bequest CCXXXI 39a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 174 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘St Remo’ bottom right of sketch, top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The main sketch on this page, turned horizontally, depicts a view of the historic centre of San Remo, with the cathedral of San Siro visible on the left. Turner’s viewpoint is to the east of the church, looking towards its apse and Baroque campanile. The detailed, topographical nature of the study suggests that the artist may have stayed in the city overnight, rather than merely passing through. Another sketch can be found on folio 40 recto opposite (D21209).
For further sketches of San Remo, see Turner’s Coast of Genoa sketchbook of 1838 (Tate D21289, D21357; Turner Bequest CCXXXII 10 and 49 verso).
A second landscape sketch in the top right-hand corner depicts a view of the Ligurian coast, looking west towards Bordighera.

Nicola Moorby
April 2017

Revised by Hannah Kaspar
November 2024

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘San Remo, with the Church of San Siro; a Distant View of Bordighera 1828’, catalogue entry, April 2017, revised by Hannah Kaspar, November 2024, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2025, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/san-remo-with-the-church-of-san-siro-a-distant-view-of-bordighera-r1209886, accessed 07 August 2025.