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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of ?Italian Architectural Features; Including a Turret and a Campanile 1820

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of ?Italian Architectural Features; Including a Turret and a Campanile’ 1820
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 67 Recto:
Sketches of ?Italian Architectural Features; Including a Turret and a Campanile 1820
D16760
Turner Bequest CXCII 66
Pencil on white wove paper, 128 x 98 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘66’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
Stamped in black ‘CXCII 66’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains various studies of architectural features including a campanile (bell-tower), a turret and a couple of cupolas or pointed domes. The precise subjects remain unidentified although they presumably represent parts of Italian buildings, possibly in Milan.

Nicola Moorby
April 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Sketches of ?Italian Architectural Features; Including a Turret and a Campanile 1820 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sketches-of-italian-architectural-features-including-a-r1142660, accessed 11 May 2024.