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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of Serravalle di Chienti in the Apennine Mountains 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of Serravalle di Chienti in the Apennine Mountains’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Verso:
Two Sketches of Serravalle di Chienti in the Apennine Mountains 1819
D14705
Turner Bequest CLXXVII 27 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 186 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘[...]’ underneath sketch, centre bottom
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject of the two sketches on this page is the ruined fortress south of Serravalle di Chienti, a town in the Apennines approximately fifteen miles north-east of Foligno. For a further discussion see folio 27 (D14704). Turner has used the sketchbook both horizontally and vertically. The larger sketch is inverted on the page.

Nicola Moorby
November 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Two Sketches of Serravalle di Chienti in the Apennine Mountains 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-two-sketches-of-serravalle-di-chienti-in-the-apennine-r1138868, accessed 25 April 2024.