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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of a View of Sesto Calende, Lake Maggiore 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of a View of Sesto Calende, Lake Maggiore’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Recto:
Part of a View of Sesto Calende, Lake Maggiore 1819
D14170
Turner Bequest CLXXIV 13
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 186 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘284’ top right and ‘13’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIV 13’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch represents part of a view of Sesto Calende, a town at the southern tip of Lake Maggiore. For a more detailed discussion see folio 13 verso (D14169; Turner Bequest CLXXIV 12a).

Nicola Moorby
January 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Part of a View of Sesto Calende, Lake Maggiore 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-part-of-a-view-of-sesto-calende-lake-maggiore-r1142693, accessed 21 December 2024.