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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Rocca and the Cathedral, Spoleto, from near the Ponte delle Torri 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Rocca and the Cathedral, Spoleto, from near the Ponte delle Torri’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 41 Verso:
The Rocca and the Cathedral, Spoleto, from near the Ponte delle Torri 1819
D14733
Turner Bequest CLXXVII 41 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 186 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The picturesque Umbrian town of Spoleto lies thirteen miles from Foligno, approximately half-way on the nineteenth-century route between Ancona and Rome. This sketch represents a very swift study of the Rocca Albornoziana and the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta from the valley to the north-east of the Ponte delle Torri. The tall arches of the medieval aqueduct can just be seen on the left-hand side. The view looks along the course of the River Tessino towards the ruined Roman bridge, the Ponte Sanguinario. A similar view can be found on folio 42 verso (D14735).

Nicola Moorby
November 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘The Rocca and the Cathedral, Spoleto, from near the Ponte delle Torri 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-the-rocca-and-the-cathedral-spoleto-from-near-the-ponte-r1138896, accessed 16 April 2024.