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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Figures at ?Senigallia and a Landscape; Also Inscriptions by Turner 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Figures at ?Senigallia and a Landscape; Also Inscriptions by Turner’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Verso:
Figures at ?Senigallia and a Landscape; Also Inscriptions by Turner 1819
D13912
Turner Bequest CLXXI 28 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 88 x 114 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘[?Senegalla]’ top centre and within sketches of figures ‘St [...]’, ‘Yellow’ and ‘[?Bell...]’. Also ‘[?Saroian] Vale – from [?a...] [?S...] | [?Verloin...] 1.3 30 [...] 2.6 – Dis [...] [?Lod Bra...] 36 | 12 360 | 1 10. 30 [...]’ bottom, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three rough figure studies and an unidentified landscape view. The inscription at the top suggests that the former may have been observed at Senigallia, a town on the Adriatic Coast, just north-west of Ancona. Further studies related to Senigallia can be seen on folio 26 verso (D13908) and in the Venice to Ancona sketchbook (Tate D14610–D14611; Turner Bequest CLXXVI 63a–64).

Nicola Moorby
March 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Figures at ?Senigallia and a Landscape; Also Inscriptions by Turner 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-figures-at-senigallia-and-a-landscape-also-inscriptions-by-r1138730, accessed 26 April 2024.