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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of Ivrea from the East 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of Ivrea from the East’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Recto:
Two Sketches of Ivrea from the East 1836
D29217
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 3
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘3’ bottom right, descending vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ top left, descending vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 3’ top left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page has two panoramic sketches of Ivrea from the east, the lower from a more northerly viewpoint than that above. There is a closer view of the city from downstream on the River Doire on the facing page of the sketchbook (D29216; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 2a).

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Sketches of Ivrea from the East 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-sketches-of-ivrea-from-the-east-r1144769, accessed 22 November 2024.