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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View of a Street in Imola 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View of a Street in Imola’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Verso:
View of a Street in Imola 1819
D13894
Turner Bequest CLXXI 19 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 88 x 114 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Imola’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As the artist’s inscription indicates, this sketch depicts a view of a street in Imola, a town approximately twenty miles south-east of Bologna which the artist passed en route towards Ancona as part of his outward journey to Rome. Related vistas can also be found on folio 17 verso (D13890), and in the Venice to Ancona sketchbook (Tate D14555; Turner Bequest CLXXVI 33a).

Nicola Moorby
March 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘View of a Street in Imola 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-view-of-a-street-in-imola-r1138712, accessed 19 September 2024.