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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Piazza IV Novembre, Perugia 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Piazza IV Novembre, Perugia’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 57 Verso:
Piazza IV Novembre, Perugia 1819
D16580
Turner Bequest CXCI 57 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Perugia’ bottom centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner passed through the Umbrian city of Perugia as part of his route north to Florence from Rome. This sketch of the main square, Piazza IV Novembre, has been drawn extremely swiftly, probably from a moving carriage, so that the depiction of the topography is slightly confused and schematic. Visible at the centre of the composition, however, is the round medieval fountain, the Fontana Maggiore, with the cathedral beyond.

Nicola Moorby
January 2011

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Piazza IV Novembre, Perugia 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 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-piazza-iv-novembre-perugia-r1138473, accessed 23 April 2024.