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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views of Lake Como, Looking North Towards Bellagio 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Views of Lake Como, Looking North Towards Bellagio’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Recto:
Two Views of Lake Como, Looking North Towards Bellagio 1819
D14274
Turner Bequest CLXXIV 67
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 186 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘67’ top right and ‘284’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIV 67’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner appears to have made two journeys by boat on Lake Como and this page relates to the second expedition which followed the western coast from Como in the south to Menaggio in the north.1 The sheet contains two sketches of the shore seen from the waters of the lake. Both depict the same mountainous silhouette which represents the view looking north towards Bellagio from a location near Lenno.
For further sketches of Lake Como see folio 48 (D14234; Turner Bequest CLXXIV 47).

Nicola Moorby
January 2013

1
See Federico Crimi, ‘J.M.W. Turner e il Verbano: 1819: Torino, Milano e il Sempione’, in Verbanus, no.28, 2007, p.28.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Two Views of Lake Como, Looking North Towards Bellagio 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-lake-como-looking-north-towards-bellagio-r1142795, accessed 19 April 2024.