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 > Marseilles to Genoa Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Villefranche-sur-Mer and Cap Ferrat, from the North 1828

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Villefranche-sur-Mer and Cap Ferrat, from the North’ 1828
Folio 12 Verso:
Villefranche-sur-Mer and Cap Ferrat, from the North 1828
D21156
Turner Bequest CCXXXI 12a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 174 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner made several sketches of Villefranche-sur-Mer from the road to the north, see folios 11 recto–12 recto (D21153–D21155). This example, with the page turned horizontally, depicts not only the bay and the harbour town, with its recognisable landmarks such as the Citadelle St-Elme and the church of Saint-Michel, but also the surrounding coastline.1 Mont Boron and Mont Alban with its fortress dominate the horizon to the right, while part of Cap Ferrat to the east can be seen on the left.

Nicola Moorby
March 2017

Revised by Hannah Kaspar
November 2024

1
Guillaud, Alfrey, Wilton and others 1981, p.286; see also Roland Courtot, ‘Les Carnets de William Turner: Recherches d’identification et de localisation des dessins’, unpublished research notes, Université de Provence à Aix, April 2008, p.3, as ‘Villefranche-sur-mer’ (shared with former Tate cataloguer Nicola Moorby in email correspondence at that date).

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Villefranche-sur-Mer and Cap Ferrat, from the North 1828’, catalogue entry, March 2017, revised by Hannah Kaspar, 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/villefranche-sur-mer-and-cap-ferrat-from-the-north-r1209834, accessed 15 April 2025.