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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ancona and its Harbour from North-West of the Lazzaretto 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ancona and its Harbour from North-West of the Lazzaretto’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 73 Verso:
Ancona and its Harbour from North-West of the Lazzaretto 1819
D14622
Turner Bequest CLXXVI 69a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 184 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing continues across folio 74 recto opposite (D14623; Turner Bequest CLXXVI 70). The Turner scholar C.F. Bell annotated Finberg’s 1909 Inventory entry (‘Town and harbour of Ancona’): ‘from the jetty outside the Canale del Lazzaretto’.1 The viewpoint is what is now the shore of the port area north-west of the Lazzaretto (on the other page), which has seen much subsequent development, the jetty or pier Bell mentions, seen on old maps, is apparently in the foreground here. High on the right to the north-north-east is the Cathedral of San Ciriaco, with the dome of the church of Santi Pellegrino e Teresa below near the centre.
For Cecilia Powell and James Hamilton’s comments on Turner’s varied and extensive coverage of Ancona, which takes up most of the last quarter or so of this sketchbook, see under folio 69 verso (D14514; Turner Bequest CLXXVI 65a).2

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.519.
2
See Powell 1984, pp.92–3, 466 note 109, Powell 1987, pp.25, 202 note 45, and Hamilton 1997, pp.198, 325 note 13.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Ancona and its Harbour from North-West of the Lazzaretto 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-ancona-and-its-harbour-from-north-west-of-the-lazzaretto-r1186358, accessed 19 April 2024.