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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?River Po, from the Southern Outskirts of Turin 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?River Po, from the Southern Outskirts of Turin’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Recto:
?River Po, from the Southern Outskirts of Turin 1819
D14188
Turner Bequest CLXXIV 22
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 186 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Wals’ bottom centre left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘284’ top right and ‘22’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIV 22’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch is tentatively identified as a view of the River Po from the southern outskirts of Turin, probably near Moncalieri. Visible in the distance are the Alps and a small part of the line of the mountains spills over onto the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 22 verso (D14187; Turner Bequest CLXXIV 21a).

Nicola Moorby
January 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘?River Po, from the Southern Outskirts of Turin 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 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-river-po-from-the-southern-outskirts-of-turin-r1142711, accessed 27 April 2024.