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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant Views of Montefiascone; Buildings near the Pont du Change, Lyon 1828

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant Views of Montefiascone; Buildings near the Pont du Change, Lyon’ 1828
Folio 2 Verso:
Distant Views of Montefiascone; Buildings near the Pont du Change, Lyon 1828
D21768
Turner Bequest CCXXXVI 2a
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 171 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As identified by the Turner scholars Cecilia Powell and Roland Courtot, the two views to the left of this page, executed with the sketchbook turned vertically, depict Montefiascone in the Viterbo province of Lazio.1 Turner likely composed these views on his departure from the town, as he travelled along the Via Cassia.2 In both views, the domed profile of the Basilica of Santa Margherita appears to the right of the skyline. For a comparable view of the basilica, together with a full list of Turner’s views of Montefiascone in the sketchbook, see under folio 1 recto (D21765).
The cropped study of buildings to the right, executed following the sketchbook’s foliation, continues onto folio 3 recto (D21769) opposite. Courtot has recently identified the subject as Lyon, a city encountered by Turner at a much earlier stage of his 1828–9 tour of France and Italy.3

Hannah Kaspar
December 2024

1
Powell 1984, p.435; Roland Courtot, ‘12. Vers Rome: “Carnet de Viterbe et Ronciglione” (TB CCXXXVI)’, Carnets de voyage de Turner, accessed 15 July 2024, https://carnetswt.hypotheses.org/2312.
2
Courtot, ‘12. Vers Rome: “Carnet de Viterbe et Ronciglione” (TB CCXXXVI)’.
3
Ibid.

How to cite

Hannah Kaspar, ‘Distant Views of Montefiascone; Buildings near the Pont du Change, Lyon 1828’, catalogue entry, December 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/distant-views-of-montefiascone-buildings-near-the-pont-du-change-lyon-r1210537, accessed 17 April 2025.