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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of a View of Moncalieri and the River Po, from the West 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of a View of Moncalieri and the River Po, from the West’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Verso:
Part of a View of Moncalieri and the River Po, from the West 1819
D14177
Turner Bequest CLXXIV 16 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 186 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains part of a landscape composition depicting the town of Moncalieri and the River Po from the west. Moncalieri lies approximately five miles south of Turin and Turner seems to have made a separate short excursion from the city in order to see it. His viewpoint for this sketch is the western bank of the river, looking north and east towards Moncalieri and the hills beyond. The road lies in the foreground, running parallel with the riverbank. The drawing spills over onto the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 18 (D14178; Turner Bequest CLXXIV 17.
For a list of further views of Moncalieri see folio 17 (D14176; Turner Bequest CLXXIV 16).

Nicola Moorby
December 2012

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Part of a View of Moncalieri and the River Po, from the West 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2012, 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-part-of-a-view-of-moncalieri-and-the-river-po-from-the-west-r1142700, accessed 25 April 2024.