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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Second Italian Tour 1828-9 > Rome to Rimini Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The ?Church of Santissima Trinità dei Monti, Rome 1828-9

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The ?Church of Santissima Trinità dei Monti, Rome’ 1828-9
Folio 1 Verso:
The ?Church of Santissima Trinità dei Monti, Rome 1828–9
D14834
Turner Bequest CLXXVIII 1a
Pencil on white laid paper, 40 x 97 mm, extended with white laid paper to height of 132 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘1’ (smudged), towards top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner appears to have torn off part of this page before proceeding to sketch a church on the remnant, turning the sketchbook vertically. Finberg’s 1909 Inventory of the Bequest provisionally identifies the building as the Church of Santissima Trinità dei Monti in Rome, overlooking the Spanish Steps and the Piazza di Spagna.1 However, the cursory lines make a precise identification difficult to confirm.
1
Finberg 1909, I, p.524.
Technical notes:
The remnant of the torn-out page is uneven, extending to a maximum height of 40 mm. It has been made good with modern laid paper, increasing the height to 132 mm to match the sketchbook’s intact leaves.

Hannah Kaspar
November 2024

How to cite

Hannah Kaspar, ‘The ?Church of Santissima Trinità dei Monti, Rome 1828–9’, catalogue entry, November 2024, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2025, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/the-church-of-santissima-trinita-dei-monti-rome-r1210208, accessed 18 April 2025.