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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The City Walls Bologna of Bologna; the Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca on its Hill to the South-West 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?The City Walls Bologna of Bologna; the Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca on its Hill to the South-West’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Recto:
?The City Walls Bologna of Bologna; the Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca on its Hill to the South-West 1819
D14534
Turner Bequest CLXXVI 26
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 184 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘26’ bottom right (now faint)
Stamped in black ‘CLXXVI – 26’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The viewpoint is perhaps the western side of the roughly hexagonal former perimeter of Bologna’s city walls (since lost), looking south from the walls themselves; the hills and buildings in the distance on the right are apparently the same as those on folio 25 recto (D14533); as Cecilia Powell recognised, the hilltop Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca is shown at the bottom right1 in what may be a direct continuation from the main drawing.
For the Sanctuary, see under folio 42 recto (D14564; Turner Bequest CLXXVI 38);2 and for general remarks on Bologna and Turner’s numerous views on adjacent pages, see under folio 24 recto (D14532).

Matthew Imms
March 2017

1
See Powell 1984, p.406.
2
See ibid., pp.84–6.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?The City Walls Bologna of Bologna; the Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca on its Hill to the South-West 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, July 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-city-walls-bologna-of-bologna-the-sanctuary-of-the-r1186270, accessed 25 April 2024.