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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Church of Madonna della Scopa, amidst Mountains 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Church of Madonna della Scopa, amidst Mountains’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 86 Verso:
?Church of Madonna della Scopa, amidst Mountains 1819
D16631
Turner Bequest CXCI 86 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Madona dela | Scopa Scorpa’ centre left-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The details of this sketch are too rough to be identified and were almost certainly drawn from a moving carriage. Turner’s inscription appears to suggest that the subject is a church, ‘Madonna della Scopa’ (Madonna of the Broom), but the mountainous or hilly location is remains unknown.

Nicola Moorby
February 2011

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘?Church of Madonna della Scopa, amidst Mountains 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-church-of-madonna-della-scopa-amidst-mountains-r1138524, accessed 26 October 2024.