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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Valley of the Arno 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Valley of the Arno’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Recto:
The Valley of the Arno 1819
D16541
Turner Bequest CXCI 30
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Stamped in black ‘CXCI 30’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg identified the subject of this sketch as the valley of the Arno, with the river winding through the centre of the composition towards open plain and distant mountains.1 Turner’s exact location is currently unidentified although it may be Fiesole, a town to the north-east of Florence.

Nicola Moorby
November 2010

1
Finberg 1909, p.568.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘The Valley of the Arno 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2010, 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-the-valley-of-the-arno-r1138434, accessed 27 April 2024.