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 > Rome to Rimini Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings among the Apennine Mountains 1829

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings among the Apennine Mountains’ 1829
Folio 13 Recto:
Buildings among the Apennine Mountains 1829
D14855
Turner Bequest CLXXVIII 13
Pencil on white laid paper, 97 x 132 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘13’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CLXXVIII – 13’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this extremely loose study represents the Apennine Mountains, with a town or village indicated at the centre. Turner was possibly in the vicinity of Terni or Foligno in Umbria, travelling north-east from Rome towards Ancona on the Adriatic coast. This is possibly a variant study of the mountain view on the verso (D14856), tentatively identified as the villages of Belfiore and Pale along the Chienti Valley.

Hannah Kaspar
November 2024

How to cite

Hannah Kaspar, ‘Buildings among the Apennine Mountains 1829’, 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/buildings-among-the-apennine-mountains-r1210228, accessed 19 April 2025.