Graphite and watercolour on paper
Watercolours Related to Samuel Rogers’s Italy
Watercolours Related to Samuel Rogers’s Italy
Vignette watercolours  c.1826-1843
Vignette watercolours  c.1826-1843
Italy
Watercolours produced for engraved series: Rogers’s Italy
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Rogers’s Italy 1830 Watercolours
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Aosta Rogerss Italy
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
Alps
animals: mammals
Aosta - non-specific
architecture
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
cross
donkey
gate
Italy
landscape
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
man
monuments
mountain
natural features (non-UK)
people
places
Rogers, Samuel, ‘Italy’
townscape
townscapes / man-made features
tree
valley
<p>In 1826 the poet Samuel Rogers commissioned Turner to make the twenty-five watercolours which were engraved as the head- or tail-pieces of the 1830 edition of his poem 'Italy'. In these vignettes Turner balances a desire to illustrate the modern Italy he recalled from his visit of 1819 with the poetry of ancient Italy which overflowed from its art and ruined monuments. The Turner Bequest contains most of the original watercolours as well as a number of related, but unpublished, designs, such as the view of the Ponte Vecchio. Turner completed the project with the imaginary view of an Italian lake, made between breakfast and lunchtime at Petworth House in 1827.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour
Aosta, for Rogers’s ‘Italy’
support: 239 × 302 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>In 1826 the poet Samuel Rogers commissioned Turner to make the twenty-five <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolours</span></a> which were <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/engraving" title="Glossary definition for 'Engraving'"><span>engraved</span></a> as the head- or tail-pieces of the 1830 edition of his poem 'Italy'. In these vignettes Turner balances a desire to illustrate the modern Italy he recalled from his visit of 1819 with the poetry of ancient Italy which overflowed from its art and ruined monuments. The Turner Bequest contains most of the original watercolours as well as a number of related, but unpublished, designs, such as the view of the Ponte Vecchio. Turner completed the project with the imaginary view of an Italian lake, made between breakfast and lunchtime at Petworth House in 1827.</p>
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adults Alps animals: mammals Aosta - non-specific architecture cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents cross donkey gate Italy landscape literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) man monuments mountain natural features (non-UK) people places Rogers, Samuel, ‘Italy’ townscape townscapes / man-made features tree valley
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