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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Landscape Sketches of Poggio, and a View of the Rocca Albornoziana, Spoleto 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Landscape Sketches of Poggio, and a View of the Rocca Albornoziana, Spoleto’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Verso:
Landscape Sketches of Poggio, and a View of the Rocca Albornoziana, Spoleto 1819
D13922
Turner Bequest CLXXI 33 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 88 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Poggio approaching’ bottom of top sketch and ‘Spoleto’ left of lower sketch
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two on-the-spot sketches relating to Turner’s travels in Italy in 1819. Turner’s inscription suggests that the location of the upper drawing of clouds is Poggio, a small village on the road between Bologna and Imola. The lower vista depicts a view of Spoleto, a picturesque Umbrian town which lies approximately half-way on the nineteenth-century route between Ancona and Rome. The study represents the approach from the north looking towards the fourteenth-century castle, the Rocca Albornoziana. A related view can be found in the Ancona to Rome sketchbook (see Tate D14727; Turner Bequest CLXXVII 38a).

Nicola Moorby
March 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Landscape Sketches of Poggio, and a View of the Rocca Albornoziana, Spoleto 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-landscape-sketches-of-poggio-and-a-view-of-the-rocca-r1138740, accessed 20 September 2024.