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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Building on the Banks of the ?River Tiber 1828-9

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Building on the Banks of the ?River Tiber’ 1828-9
Folio 8 Recto:
A Building on the Banks of the ?River Tiber 1828–9
D14845
Turner Bequest CLXXVIII 8
Pencil on white laid paper, 97 x 132 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘8’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXVIII – 8’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This cursory study of a building is difficult to identify; as Finberg’s 1909 Inventory of the Bequest proposed, it appears to lie on the banks of a river, presumably the Tiber.1 Turner was possibly sketching on his departure from Rome in early January 1829, as he headed north-east towards the Apennine Mountains.

Hannah Kaspar
November 2024

1
Finberg 1909, I, p.524.

How to cite

Hannah Kaspar, ‘A Building on the Banks of the ?River Tiber 1828–9’, 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/a-building-on-the-banks-of-the-river-tiber-r1210219, accessed 18 April 2025.