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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Landscape Sketches on the Road between Rome and Florence; including Three Views of Trevi and the Walls of Florence 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Landscape Sketches on the Road between Rome and Florence; including Three Views of Trevi and the Walls of Florence’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Recto:
Landscape Sketches on the Road between Rome and Florence; including Three Views of Trevi and the Walls of Florence 1819
D16533
Turner Bequest CXCI 26
Pencil on white wove paper, 189 x 113 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Trevi’ and ‘[?ms] S Fol’ and ‘Wall of Florence’ within sketches
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘26’ top right, ascending right-hand edge [very faint]
Stamped in black ‘CXCI 26’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner left Rome sometime in mid to late December and travelled on to Florence. This page contains four sketches which were probably drawn en route from a moving vehicle, retracing part of the road which Turner had taken in September on his journey south towards Rome from Ancona. The three uppermost drawings represent views of Trevi, a town on the crest of a hill, approximately six miles south-east of Foligno and seventy miles north of the capital. The highest point visible is the campanile of the Cathedral of Sant’Emiliano. Further sketches relating to Trevi dating from the outward journey to Rome can be found in the Ancona to Rome sketchbook (see Tate D14720 and D14722; Turner Bequest CLXXVII 35 and 36). At the bottom of the page Turner has annotated the small sketch as the ‘Wall of Florence’.

Nicola Moorby
February 2009

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Landscape Sketches on the Road between Rome and Florence; including Three Views of Trevi and the Walls of Florence 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2009, 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-landscape-sketches-on-the-road-between-rome-and-florence-r1138426, accessed 14 January 2025.