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, Turin and Milan Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Church of San Rocco, Casalpusterlengo 1829

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Church of San Rocco, Casalpusterlengo’ 1829
Folio 5 Verso:
The Church of San Rocco, Casalpusterlengo 1829
D21673
Turner Bequest CCXXXV 5a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 90 x 144 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Castelo P[...]’ towards top centre and ‘Via L[...]’ towards bottom centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As Finberg indicated in his 1909 Inventory of the Bequest, Turner’s partly illegible upper inscription is likely a misspelling of Casalpusterlengo, located between Piacenza and Lodi.1 Turner encountered this town as he journeyed north-west towards Milan during the second week of January 1829. More recently, the geographer and Turner researcher Roland Courtot has echoed Finberg’s tentative identification, remarking on the close resemblance of the bell tower and the church façade with the Church of San Rocco in Casalpusterlengo.2 Turner’s vantage point was from the Piazza Dante Alighieri, looking north-west.

Hannah Kaspar
November 2024

1
Finberg, II, p.721.
2
Roland Courtot, ‘15. TB CCXXXV: le carnet du retour d’Italie en 1829’, Carnets de voyage de Turner, accessed 4 September 2024, https://carnetswt.hypotheses.org/4359.

How to cite

Hannah Kaspar, ‘The Church of San Rocco, Casalpusterlengo 1829’, 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-san-rocco-casalpusterlengo-r1210314, accessed 15 April 2025.