- Description
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- Creator(s)
- Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) and Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) after John Robert Cozens (1752-1797)
- Title
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- A View on the River Arno, with a Tower on a Hill
- Date
- 1794 - 1797
- Medium and Support
- Graphite and watercolour on wove paper, on an early mount
- Dimensions
- 15.4 × 23.3 cm, 6 ⅛ × 9 ⅛ in
- Mount Dimensions
- 36.8 × 48 cm, 14 ½ × 18 ⅞ in
- Object Type
- Collaborations; Monro School Copy
- Subject Terms
- Italian View: Tuscany; River Scenery
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- TG0751
- Description Source(s)
- Viewed in November 2017
Provenance
Dr Thomas Monro (1759–1833); his posthumous sale, Christie's, 28 June 1833, lot 79 as ‘Twenty-six sketches in Switzerland and Italy, by Turner, in blue and Indian ink, in a scrap-book’; bought by Thomas Griffith for Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851), £10 10s; accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest, 1856
Bibliography
Finberg, 1909, vol.2, p.1232 as 'Lake, with distant mountains' by Thomas Girtin; Bell and Girtin, 1935, p.75; Turner Online as 'A View on the Arno' by Joseph Mallord William Turner and Thomas Girtin (Accessed 09/09/2022)
Place depicted
Footnotes
- 1 The full diary entry, giving crucial details of the artists’ work at Monro’s house, is transcribed in the Documents section of the Archive (1798 – Item 2).
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