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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Recanati from the East 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Recanati from the East’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Verso:
Recanati from the East 1819
D14688
Turner Bequest CLXXVII 18 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 186 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
After visiting the city of Loreto, Turner’s route took him south-west towards Macerata. The subject of the landscape in the top left-hand corner of this page is the next location of note after Loreto, Recanati, a small hill town approximately three miles away, best known as the birthplace of Turner’s contemporary, the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837). The sketch depicts Recanati from the east, looking west towards the distant line of the Apennine Mountains. On the far right-hand side is the medieval Torre del Borgo (Civic Tower).
Nicola Moorby
2008

How to cite

‘Recanati from the East 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, 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-recanati-from-the-east-r1138850, accessed 24 April 2024.