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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Adriatic Coast with Ancona in the Distance 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Adriatic Coast with Ancona in the Distance’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 69 Recto:
The Adriatic Coast with Ancona in the Distance 1819
D14613
Turner Bequest CLXXVI 65
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 184 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘65’ bottom right (now faint)
Stamped in black ‘CLXXVI – 65’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As Finberg slightly tentatively suggested, the view is south-east along the Adriatic coast towards Ancona;1 compare folio 67 recto (D14609; Turner Bequest CLXXVI 63), and the hills in the background of the folio 68 verso opposite (D14612; CLXXVI 64a).
For Cecilia Powell’s comments on the relatively uneventful phase of Turner’s journey between leaving Rimini and reaching Ancona itself (folios 61 recto–69 recto; D14599–D14613; Turner Bequest CLXXVI 57–65), see under D14599.2

Matthew Imms
March 2017

1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.519.
2
See Powell 1984, pp.92, 466 note 108.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Adriatic Coast with Ancona in the Distance 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-adriatic-coast-with-ancona-in-the-distance-r1186349, accessed 18 September 2024.