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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Coastal Views from the Gulf of Trieste 1840

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coastal Views from the Gulf of Trieste’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 65 Verso:
Coastal Views from the Gulf of Trieste 1840
D30126
Turner Bequest CCXCIX 65a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 127 x 198 mm
Partial watermark ‘J. Wha’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, there are several bands of landscape studies, showing hills along the coastline of the Gulf of Trieste as Turner travelled east by sea from Venice; one also shows what is likely a small coastal fort. The profile at the outer edge is inverted relative to the others, and includes a small boat sailing past.
These are among a sequence of views in and around the Adriatic port city of Trieste, made working inwards from the back of this sketchbook; see under folio 57 recto (D30109).1
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See also Powell 1995, pp.66, 81 note 18.
Technical notes:
There is staining at the bottom centre from the leather pencil loop secured under the rear paste-down (D30129; Turner Bequest CCXCIX 67).

Matthew Imms
September 2018

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Coastal Views from the Gulf of Trieste 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-coastal-views-from-the-gulf-of-trieste-r1196976, accessed 26 April 2024.