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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Verona; Padua and Nearby Hills 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Verona; Padua and Nearby Hills’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 71 Recto:
?Verona; Padua and Nearby Hills 1833
D31555
Turner Bequest CCCXI 71
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 184 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Padua’ centre, ‘Saluta | Z[...]’ top centre, descending
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘71’ top right and ‘246’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCXI – 71’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner appears to have rendered a distant view of Verona, possibly from the heights around Castel San Pietro looking towards the Basilica di San Zeno. The sketch is inscribed ‘Saluta | Z[...]’.
With the sketchbook turned in accordance with the foliation Turner has also produced rough sketches of Padua and its environs (inscribed at centre). The triumphal arch depicted at centre may be part of the gardens of the Palazzo Mantua Benavides.1 Below is a view of the city with the domes of the Cathedral visible at left and a tower, possibly the Torre del Bo, at centre.
For more views of Verona in this sketchbook see Tate D31531–D31532, D31538–D31541, D31547–D31549, D31551–D31563, D31577–D31578; Turner Bequest CCCXI 58a–59, 62a–64, 67–68, 69–75, 83–83a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2017

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See, for example, Canaletto (1697–1768), Padua: The Benavides garden, with a classical arch and a statue of Hercules, c.1760, pen and ink, with grey wash, over free and ruled pencil and pinpointing, Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 907563, https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/907563/padua-the-benavides-garden-with-a-classical-arch-and-a-statue-of-hercules 

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘?Verona; Padua and Nearby Hills 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-verona-padua-and-nearby-hills-r1203569, accessed 27 September 2024.