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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views of the Duomo, Como; and the Gulf of Como from the Lake 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Views of the Duomo, Como; and the Gulf of Como from the Lake’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 64 Verso:
Two Views of the Duomo, Como; and the Gulf of Como from the Lake 1819
D14267
Turner Bequest CLXXIV 63 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 186 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three distinct sketches. The two uppermost studies represent variant views of the Duomo (cathedral) of Como. The drawing in the top left-hand corner, parallel with the left-hand edge of the sketchbook, depicts the side of the building from the south (from a point on present-day Vittorio Emanuele II), while that in the top right-hand corner represents a more general view from seen from the waters of Lake Como to the north. A related prospect can be seen on folio 62 verso–63 (D14262–D14263; Turner Bequest CLXXIV 61a–62). For a more detailed study and a general description of the Duomo see folio 63 verso (D14265; Turner Bequest CLXXIV 62a).
Federico Crimi has identified the subject of the bottom view as the gulf of Como, seen from the lake.1 For further sketches of Lake Como see folio 48 (D14234; Turner Bequest CLXXIV 47).

Nicola Moorby
January 2013

1
Federico Crimi, unpublished notes.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Two Views of the Duomo, Como; and the Gulf of Como from the Lake 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-two-views-of-the-duomo-como-and-the-gulf-of-como-from-the-r1142788, accessed 26 April 2024.