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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Distant Range of Hills, Perhaps beyond Cesena or Rimini 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Distant Range of Hills, Perhaps beyond Cesena or Rimini’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 55 Recto:
A Distant Range of Hills, Perhaps beyond Cesena or Rimini 1819
D14588
Turner Bequest CLXXVI 51
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 184 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘51’ bottom right (now faint)
Stamped in black ‘CLXXVI – 51’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This craggy skyline remains as yet unidentified, but was likely observed in the distance in the vicinity of Cesena and Rimini, recorded on adjacent pages.

Cecilia 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);1 for his overall route south-east between Bologna and Ancona, see the sketchbook’s Introduction.

Matthew Imms
March 2017

1
See Powell 1984, pp.89–90, 465 note 98.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Distant Range of Hills, Perhaps beyond Cesena or Rimini 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-distant-range-of-hills-perhaps-beyond-cesena-or-rimini-r1186324, accessed 25 April 2024.