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

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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 4 Recto:
The ?Church of Santissima Trinità dei Monti, Rome 1828–9
D14838
Turner Bequest CLXXVIII 4
Pencil on white laid paper, 132 x 97 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘4’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CLXXVIII – 4’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned vertically, Turner produced these two slight studies of church buildings, trees and a bridge in Rome. Finberg’s 1909 Inventory of the Bequest identified the subject as the Church of Santissima Trinità dei Monti to the north of the city, which overlooks the Spanish Steps and the Piazza di Spagna.1 However, the cursory outlines make a precise location difficult to confirm.

Hannah Kaspar
November 2024

1
Finberg 1909, I, p.524.

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-r1210212, accessed 15 April 2025.