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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ancona from the Harbour, with the Cittadella in the Distance to the South 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ancona from the Harbour, with the Cittadella in the Distance to the South’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 76 Recto:
Ancona from the Harbour, with the Cittadella in the Distance to the South 1819
D14627
Turner Bequest CLXXVI 72
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 184 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘72’ bottom right (now faint)
Stamped in black ‘CLXXVI – 72’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing continues across folio 75 verso opposite (D14626; Turner Bequest CLXXVI 71a). The Turner scholar C.F. Bell annotated Finberg’s 1909 Inventory entry (‘Town of Ancona’): ‘from the Banchina the Citadel to r.’1 The viewpoint is on the shore of the harbour south-west of the cathedral, along the Banchina on what is now the Lungomare Luigi Vanvitelli, and the prospect on this page is south to the Cittadella; the slopes and the fortress itself are now heavily wooded.
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 from the Harbour, with the Cittadella in the Distance to the South 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-from-the-harbour-with-the-cittadella-in-the-distance-r1186363, accessed 19 April 2024.