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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Bridge and Buildings on an Eminence, Possibly Including One of Bologna's City Gates 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Bridge and Buildings on an Eminence, Possibly Including One of Bologna's City Gates’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Verso:
A Bridge and Buildings on an Eminence, Possibly Including One of Bologna’s City Gates 1819
D14541
Turner Bequest CLXXVI 26g
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 184 mm
Partial watermark ‘Allnutt | 18’
Inscribed in pencil ‘clxxvi.g’ (sic) bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the view includes slight indications of a bridge with a fortified tower or gateway beyond. The subject is as yet not established, but may have been on the outskirts of Bologna, since much developed, with one of the city’s gates. For general remarks on Bologna and Turner’s numerous identified views on adjacent pages, see under folio 24 recto (D14532).
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 and Buildings on an Eminence, Possibly Including One of Bologna’s City Gates 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-and-buildings-on-an-eminence-possibly-including-one-r1186277, accessed 20 April 2024.