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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Second Italian Tour 1828-9 > Genoa and Florence Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Mountains 1828

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mountains’ 1828
Folio 25 Verso:
Views of the Ligurian Coastline 1828
D21461
Turner Bequest CCXXXIII 25a
Pencil on white lined wove paper, 96 x 144 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two rough profiles of the Riviera di Levante, the stretch of Ligurian coastline linking Genoa to La Spezia. Both studies are inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation. Patches of foliage are indicated with zigzagging lines, and a tower is outlined towards the bottom right. The geographer and Turner researcher Roland Courtot has described the artist’s viewpoint for both sketches as west-facing, and has proposed the slopes of Monte Becco, near the coastal town of Sori, as the location for the lower sketch.1 The markings towards the bottom of the page are difficult to decipher.

Hannah Kaspar
November 2024

1
Roland Courtot, ‘10. Vers Rome: “carnet de Gènes et Florence” (TB CCXXXIII)’, Carnets de voyage de Turner, accessed 2 May 2024, https://carnetswt.hypotheses.org/2291.

How to cite

Hannah Kaspar, ‘Views of the Ligurian Coastline 1828’, catalogue entry, November 2024, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2025, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/views-of-the-ligurian-coastline-r1210001, accessed 04 May 2025.