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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Views on Lake Maggiore, including ?Angera and Arona 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Views on Lake Maggiore, including ?Angera and Arona’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Verso:
Three Views on Lake Maggiore, including ?Angera and Arona 1819
D16937
Turner Bequest CXCIV 25 a
Pencil and grey watercolour wash on white wove paper, 121 x 195 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches. The dark grey ground of the watercolour wash makes the pencil details extremely difficult to discern. However, the studies appear to represent views of Lake Maggiore. The upper two scenes in particular may depict the approach towards Arona from the Simplon road to the north which skirts the lake’s western shore. The upper vista appears to depict the Rocca di Angera on the opposite side of the lake, whilst the middle view shows a distant view of Arona with the vast statue of San Carlo Borromeo on the heights above the town. Compare folio 27 (D16940).

Nicola Moorby
May 2011

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Three Views on Lake Maggiore, including ?Angera and Arona 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2011, 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-three-views-on-lake-maggiore-including-angera-and-arona-r1132812, accessed 20 September 2024.