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, with Distant Apennine Mountains 1829

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings, with Distant Apennine Mountains’ 1829
Folio 16 Recto:
Buildings, with Distant Apennine Mountains 1829
D14860
Turner Bequest CLXXVIII 16
Pencil on white laid paper, 97 x 132 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘16’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CLXXVIII – 16’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this loosely rendered study features buildings in the foreground and the distant peaks of the Apennine Mountains beyond. A precise location is difficult to pinpoint, although Turner was likely travelling north-east through the region of Umbria.
Technical notes:
There appears to be a spider pressed into the paper in the top-left corner.

Hannah Kaspar
November 2024

How to cite

Hannah Kaspar, ‘Buildings, with Distant 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-with-distant-apennine-mountains-r1210233, accessed 18 April 2025.