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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Cathedral and Abbey of San Giusto, Susa, from the Bridge 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Cathedral and Abbey of San Giusto, Susa, from the Bridge’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Recto:
The Cathedral and Abbey of San Giusto, Susa, from the Bridge 1836
D29239
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 14
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘14’ bottom right, descending vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 14’ bottom left, descending
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner drew the bridge at Susa on the adjacent page of the sketchbook (D29237) and has made this view of the Cathedral and Abbey of San Giusto from the bridge itself.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Cathedral and Abbey of San Giusto, Susa, from the Bridge 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-cathedral-and-abbey-of-san-giusto-susa-from-the-bridge-r1144790, accessed 18 May 2024.