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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca, with Bologna in the Distance; the Arcade on the Hillside 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca, with Bologna in the Distance; the Arcade on the Hillside’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 41 Verso:
The Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca, with Bologna in the Distance; the Arcade on the Hillside 1819
D14563
Turner Bequest CLXXVI 37a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 184 mm
Partial watermark ‘Allnutt | 18’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The main view continues across folio 42 recto opposite (D14564; Turner Bequest CLXXVI 38). The Turner scholar C.F. Bell annotated Finberg’s 1909 Inventory entry (‘Madonna di San Luca’), noting that the church is ‘to right [on the other page, with] distant Bologna to l | from the height to the West of the Monte della Guardia’1 (the hill on which the church stands). The north-eastwards prospect is now obscured by trees along the Via di San Luca. There is a separate drawing framed by pencil lines at the top left, which is effectively a variation on the inner half of the main view, emphasising the gradient of the arcade receding rapidly towards the city.
For the Sanctuary itself, under D14564;2 and for Bologna in general and numerous views on adjacent pages, under folio 24 recto (D14532).

Matthew Imms
March 2017

1
Undated MS note by C.F. Bell (died 1966) in copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, I, p.518.
2
See also Powell 1984, pp.84–6.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca, with Bologna in the Distance; the Arcade on the Hillside 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-sanctuary-of-the-madonna-di-san-luca-with-bologna-in-the-r1186299, accessed 20 April 2024.