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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Italian Houses c.1828-43

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Italian Houses’ c.1828-43
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
?Italian Houses c.1828–43
D33961
Turner Bequest CCCXLI 246v
Pencil on buff wove paper, 151 x 224 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?Villa Fanchoe]’ bottom right, upside down
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘440’ bottom left and in pencil 145 | O’ top right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a reprise of part of the subject on the recto, D33960 (Turner Bequest CCCXLI 246), which shoes houses below a ruined castle. The subject is unidentified, but may be Italian; see the Introduction to this section for further brief discussion and dating. Turner’s inscription is very unclear, and Finberg’s tentative reading ‘Villa Fanchoe’1 is only one possibility.

Matthew Imms
February 2016

1
Finberg 1909, II, p.1076.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?Italian Houses c.1828–43 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-italian-houses-r1183018, accessed 23 November 2024.