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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Boboli Gardens, Florence 1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 50 Verso:
The Boboli Gardens, Florence 1819
D16570
Turner Bequest CXCI 50 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Bobli’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As Turner’s inscription indicates, this sketch depicts a view of the Boboli Gardens, a formal sixteenth-century landscaped park which lies across a hill to the south and west of the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. The view shows terraced levels adorned with classical statues and urns, although the precise location remains unidentified. The artist made a sequence of studies within the gardens, see also folios 51 verso, 52 verso–53, 68 verso (Tate D16572, D16574–D16575, D16600).

Nicola Moorby
February 2011

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘The Boboli Gardens, Florence 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-the-boboli-gardens-florence-r1138463, accessed 28 March 2024.