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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ponte nelle Alpi (formerly Capodiponte), near Belluno; Mountains ?in the Dolomites 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ponte nelle Alpi (formerly Capodiponte), near Belluno; Mountains ?in the Dolomites’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 65 Verso:
Ponte nelle Alpi (formerly Capodiponte), near Belluno; Mountains ?in the Dolomites 1840
D32390
Turner Bequest CCCXX 65a
Pencil on white wove paper, 89 x 149 mm
Partial watermark ‘& C’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Capo di Ponte’ towards top left, and ‘[?S] C[...]’ top centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The two drawings here were made with the page turned horizontally both ways. The main view shows rugged mountains; the smaller view is labelled to indicate Capodiponte, the old name for Ponte nelle Alpi, which sits within a bend of the River Piave just north-east of Belluno (see folio 66 verso; D32392). The meaning of the abbreviated inscription with a line leading to a distant feature is unclear. There is another view on folio 60 recto (D32379).
A long sequence of sketches, mostly characterised as ‘Mountains’ by Finberg (with occasional identifications and transcriptions of the place names marked by the artist), lies between folios 7 recto and 76 recto (D32275–D32411).1 See the sketchbook’s Introduction for the likely overall route between Bregenz and Venice.2

Matthew Imms
September 2018

1
See Finberg 1909, II, pp.1030–2.
2
See also Cecilia Powell, Turner in Germany, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1995, pp.65, 81 note 9.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Ponte nelle Alpi (formerly Capodiponte), near Belluno; Mountains ?in the Dolomites 1840 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2018, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2019, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-ponte-nelle-alpi-formerly-capodiponte-near-belluno-mountains-r1196624, accessed 26 April 2024.