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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings in the Apennine Mountains; ?Pale, near Foligno 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings in the Apennine Mountains; ?Pale, near Foligno’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Verso:
Buildings in the Apennine Mountains; ?Pale, near Foligno 1819
D14715
Turner Bequest CLXXVII 32 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 186 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘[?Parveoli]’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch represents a view amidst the Apennines on the descent towards Foligno after Colfiorito. The subject is not conclusively identified but the topography of the mountains and the road winding around the slopes to the left suggests that it may represent a view of the village of Pale, approximately four miles north-east of Foligno, with the small town of Belfiore in the distance beyond. The sketch spills over slightly onto the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 33 (D14716), where the building near the top of the slope would be a small monastery, the Eremo di Santa Maria di Giacobbe.

Nicola Moorby
November 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Buildings in the Apennine Mountains; ?Pale, near Foligno 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-buildings-in-the-apennine-mountains-pale-near-foligno-r1138878, accessed 24 April 2024.