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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of a Sketch of Piazza San Carlo, Turin 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of a Sketch of Piazza San Carlo, Turin’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 31 Verso:
Part of a Sketch of Piazza San Carlo, Turin 1819
D14205
Turner Bequest CLXXIV 30 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 186 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Contrada | St Filipo’ and ‘Piazza | St Carlo’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains a continuation of the composition on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 32 (D14206; Turner Bequest CLXXIV 31). The subject of the sketch is a view of the Piazza San Carlo in Turin and, as Turner’s inscription in the bottom right-hand corner indicates, the artist’s viewpoint is the corner of the square which intersects with the Contrada di San Filippo, a street now known as Via Maria Vittoria. This side of the drawing includes figures standing beside a covered market stall.

Nicola Moorby
December 2012

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Part of a Sketch of Piazza San Carlo, Turin 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-sketch-of-piazza-san-carlo-turin-r1142726, accessed 21 September 2024.