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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner Front cover of Ancona to Rome Sketchbook 1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Front cover of Ancona to Rome Sketchbook’ 1819 (Front cover of sketchbook)
Front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Front Cover:
Front cover of Ancona to Rome Sketchbook 1819
D40928
Paper covered board bound with red leather 118 x 192 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For comments on the inscriptions on the front cover of this sketchbook see the main introduction to the sketchbook.

Nicola Moorby
November 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Front cover of Ancona to Rome Sketchbook 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2008, 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-front-cover-of-ancona-to-rome-sketchbook-r1138813, accessed 04 July 2026.