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Joseph Mallord William Turner Notes by James Hakewill on Travelling in Italy 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Notes by James Hakewill on Travelling in Italy’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 36 Verso:
Notes by James Hakewill on Travelling in Italy 1819
D13929
Turner Bequest CLXXI 36 a
black ink on white wove paper, 114 x 88 mm
Inscribed by James Hakewill (see main catalogue entry)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This inscription by James Hakewill (1778–1843), represents part of a suggested itinerary for travelling in Italy in preparation for Turner’s first Italian tour of 1819 (see the introduction to the sketchbook). The text was first transcribed by Finberg,1 and is repeated here with minor variations:
Cross the Appenines to Bologna. | Bologna to Modena, Parma | Guartalla, Mantua. | From Mantua to Pescheria | and the Lago di Garda. | Verona – Verona by | Padua &c to Venice. | Home by the Tyrol. | through Switzerland & | France.
The text follows on from folio 37 verso (D13931) and continues on folio 35 verso (D13926). The content is repeated to some extent on folios 19–24 (D13893–D13903).
The route recommended here reflects Hakewill’s own tour of Italy in 1816–17 where he journey back from Rome via Florence, Bologna, Venice and Switzerland.2 Turner, however, ultimately chose a different course, travelling to Venice on the outward leg, and returning home via Florence, Milan, Turin and the Pass of Mont Cenis into France.

Nicola Moorby
March 2010

1
Finberg 1909, p.499.
2
See Tony Cubberley and Luke Herrmann, Twilight of the Grand Tour: A Catalogue of the drawings by James Hakewill in the British School at Rome Library, Rome 1992, pp.10–11.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Notes by James Hakewill on Travelling in Italy 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-notes-by-james-hakewill-on-travelling-in-italy-r1138745, accessed 26 April 2024.