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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Bridge, with a Campanile and Buildings on a Hill Beyond, ?at or near Bologna 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Bridge, with a Campanile and Buildings on a Hill Beyond, ?at or near Bologna’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Verso:
A Bridge, with a Campanile and Buildings on a Hill Beyond, ?at or near Bologna 1819
D14537
Turner Bequest CLXXVI 26c
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 184 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘clxxvi. c’ (sic) top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this view with a bridge, a tower and buildings including what appear to be fortifications beyond, falls among clearly identifiable views of Bologna (see under folio 24 recto; D14532), but may represent one of the smaller towns or cities in the vicinity; some of the sites on his overall southward route in this sketchbook do not appear in quite the order he would have encountered them, and he appears to have used the book slightly haphazardly at times.
Finberg noted of the pages he designated Turner Bequest CLXXVI 26a–h (D14535– D14542): ‘The following four leaves were found loose, but appear to belong here.’1 Their presence as now bound at this stage of the sketchbook affects its foliation sequence compared to Finberg’s numbering; see the concordance in the Introduction.

Matthew Imms
March 2017

1
Finberg 1909, I, p.517.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Bridge, with a Campanile and Buildings on a Hill Beyond, ?at or near Bologna 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-a-bridge-with-a-campanile-and-buildings-on-a-hill-beyond-at-r1186275, accessed 20 September 2024.