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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Senigállia, with the Rocca Roveresca 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Senigállia, with the Rocca Roveresca’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Recto:
Senigállia, with the Rocca Roveresca 1819
D14611
Turner Bequest CLXXVI 64
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 184 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Senigallia’ towards bottom left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘64’ bottom right (now faint)
Stamped in black ‘CLXXVI – 64’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing continues across folio 67 verso opposite (D14610; Turner Bequest CLXXVI 63a). Senigállia, on the Adriatic Coast north-west of Ancona is seen from the valley of the River Misa, looking south with the imposing Rocca Roveresca fortress in the foreground, under which Turner has rather shakily inscribed the town’s name, perhaps whilst in a moving carriage.
For Cecilia Powell’s comments on the relatively uneventful phase of Turner’s journey between leaving Rimini and reaching Ancona (folios 61 recto–69 recto; D14599–D14613; Turner Bequest CLXXVI 57–65), see under D14599.1

Matthew Imms
March 2017

1
See Powell 1984, pp.92, 466 note 108.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Senigállia, with the Rocca Roveresca 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-senigallia-with-the-rocca-roveresca-r1186347, accessed 18 September 2024.