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
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
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Ponte Vecchio Florence Vignette Rogerss Italy
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
bridge
bridges and viaducts
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
features
Florence, Ponte Vecchio
Italy
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
natural features (non-UK)
places
River Arno
Rogers, Samuel, ‘Italy’
tower
townscapes / man-made features
waterfront
<p>This delicately coloured drawing is an unused design for one of the oblong vignettes illustrating Samuel Rogers's poem 'Italy'. A very different view was used in the illustrated edition published in 1838. The vignettes were intended to distill the essence of the places described, and of Italy itself. Here, Turner provided a compressed view of some of the main buildings of Florence, including the Ponte Vecchio and the Uffizi, and, with light but incisive applications of wash, suggests vivid effects of sunlight and shadow.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique watercolour
The Ponte Vecchio, Florence; ?Vignette Study for Rogers’s ‘Italy’
support: 191 × 243 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>This delicately coloured <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> is an unused design for one of the oblong vignettes illustrating Samuel Rogers's poem 'Italy'. A very different view was used in the illustrated edition published in 1838. The vignettes were intended to distill the essence of the places described, and of Italy itself. Here, Turner provided a compressed view of some of the main buildings of Florence, including the Ponte Vecchio and the Uffizi, and, with light but incisive applications of wash, suggests vivid effects of sunlight and shadow.</p>
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architecture bridge bridges and viaducts cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents features Florence, Ponte Vecchio Italy literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) natural features (non-UK) places River Arno Rogers, Samuel, ‘Italy’ tower townscapes / man-made features waterfront
CCLXXX 95