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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cesena from the Abbey of the Madonna del Monte 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cesena from the Abbey of the Madonna del Monte’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 53 Verso:
Cesena from the Abbey of the Madonna del Monte 1819
D14585
Turner Bequest CLXXVI 49a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 184 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Cecilia Powell has confirmed Finberg’s tentative identification of this drawing,1 inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, as a view of Cesena from the elevated vicinity of the abbey of the Madonna del Monte,2 looking west-north-west towards the Rocca Malatestiana fortress beyond the tower of the church of Sant’Agostino. There is a similar view on folio 54 recto opposite (D14586; Turner Bequest CLXXVI 50); for others of the city on adjacent pages, see under folio 46 verso (D14573; CLXXVI 42a).
Powell has commented on the relatively uneventful phase of Turner’s journey between leaving Bologna and reaching Rimini (folios 43 recto–60 verso; D14566–D14598; Turner Bequest CLXXVI 39a–56a);3 for his overall route south-east between Bologna and Ancona, see the sketchbook’s Introduction.

Matthew Imms
March 2017

1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.518.
2
See Powell 1984, p.407.
3
Ibid., pp.89–90, 465 note 98.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Cesena from the Abbey of the Madonna del Monte 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-cesena-from-the-abbey-of-the-madonna-del-monte-r1186321, accessed 18 September 2024.