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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Second Italian Tour 1828-9 > Genoa and Florence Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings on Mountains. ?Magree [Turner] 1828

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings on Mountains. ?Magree [Turner]’ 1828
Folio 36 Verso:
View of Castelnuovo Magra or Trebiano, near the River Magra 1828
D21483
Turner Bequest CCXXXIII 36a
Pencil on white lined wove paper, 144 x 96 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Magra’, towards top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s top-left inscription identifies the river in the foreground, shown here with a sailing boat, as the ‘Magra’, which flows through the provinces of Massa-Carrara and La Spezia in northern Italy. Silhouetted against the sky is a hilltop village, which the geographer and Turner researcher Roland Courtot has tentatively identified as Castelnuovo Magra or Trebiano.1 Turner possibly sketched this scene while crossing the river.

Hannah Kaspar
November 2024

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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, ‘View of Castelnuovo Magra or Trebiano, near the River Magra 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/view-of-castelnuovo-magra-or-trebiano-near-the-river-magra-r1210023, accessed 05 May 2025.