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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Second Italian Tour 1828-9 > Genoa and Florence Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Santa Margherita 1828

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Santa Margherita’ 1828
Folio 32 Recto:
Santa Margherita Ligure, with Rapallo Beyond 1828
D21474
Turner Bequest CCXXXIII 32
Pencil on white lined wove paper, 96 x 144 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘32’ (smudged) bottom left
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXIII – 31’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject of this cursory sketch is Santa Margherita Ligure, a Ligurian port town approached by Turner as he journeyed towards Rapallo, having cut across the Portofino promontory from Recco and Camogli. According to the geographer and Turner researcher Roland Courtot, the artist’s viewpoint was from the Via Aurelia Ponente, looking out towards the bay of Rapallo.1 The distant promontory jutting out to the right is the Punta Manara. This is a simplified version of the landscape depicted on folio 31 verso opposite (D21473).2 Santa Margherita Ligure is also depicted on the verso (D21475).

Hannah Kaspar
November 2024

1
Roland Courtot, ‘10. Vers Rome: “carnet de Gènes et Florence” (TB CCXXXIII)’, Carnets de voyage de Turner, accessed 2 May 2024, https://carnetswt.hypotheses.org/2291.
2
Ibid.

How to cite

Hannah Kaspar, ‘Santa Margherita Ligure, with Rapallo Beyond 1828’, catalogue entry, 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/santa-margherita-ligure-with-rapallo-beyond-r1210014, accessed 06 May 2025.