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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Second Italian Tour 1828-9 > Genoa and Florence Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings. Pont St Serva [Turner], Etc. 1828

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings. Pont St Serva [Turner], Etc.’ 1828
Folio 8 Recto:
Studies of Buildings, Possibly in Genoa 1828
D21426
Turner Bequest CCXXXIII 8
Pencil on white lined wove paper, 144 x 96 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner (see main catalogue entry)
Inscribed in red ink ‘8’ (smudged) bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXIII – 8’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three or four separate profiles of buildings, executed with the sketchbook held in different positions. Towards the top is a dome flanked by two towers, a building that bears a slight resemblance to the Church of Santa Maria Assunta in Genoa. To the left and below appear to be sections of coastal ramparts, possibly also in Genoa. An upside-down travel note, perhaps from a guidebook or personal advice, runs along the bottom of the page, which is partly illegible but appears to read ‘Vali Camatiri into Tern[...] Rd to Rome Pelego o | 25 miles 1, Pont al Serva’.

Hannah Kaspar
November 2024

How to cite

Hannah Kaspar, ‘Studies of Buildings, Possibly in Genoa 1828’, 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/studies-of-buildings-possibly-in-genoa-r1209966, accessed 15 April 2025.