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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of a View of the Bridge at Crevoladossola; and a Sketch of the Church of Santi Pietro e Paolo, Crevoladossola 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of a View of the Bridge at Crevoladossola; and a Sketch of the Church of Santi Pietro e Paolo, Crevoladossola’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 83 Recto:
Part of a View of the Bridge at Crevoladossola; and a Sketch of the Church of Santi Pietro e Paolo, Crevoladossola 1819
D14304
Turner Bequest CLXXIV 82
Pencil on white wove paper, 186 x 111 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘31’ top right and ‘284’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIV 31’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s expedition to the Simplon Pass in the Swiss Alps took him through the town of Crevoladossola. This page contains two sketches pertaining to the town. At the top of the page is a view looking north towards the town’s parish church, the Chiesa Santi Pietro e Paolo with the mountains rising beyond. Meanwhile, at the bottom of the page, parallel with the spine of the sketchbook, is part of the view of the bridge at Crevoladossola. The composition has spilled over from the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 82 verso (D14305; Turner Bequest CLXXIV 81a).
For a general discussion of Turner’s journey to the Simplon Pass see the introduction to the sketchbook, and also the introduction to the Passage of the Simplon sketchbook (Tate, Turner Bequest CXCIV).

Nicola Moorby
January 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Part of a View of the Bridge at Crevoladossola; and a Sketch of the Church of Santi Pietro e Paolo, Crevoladossola 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-part-of-a-view-of-the-bridge-at-crevoladossola-and-a-sketch-r1142825, accessed 10 May 2024.