Chalk, crayon, gouache and watercolour on paper
Italy
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
<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>
Castelli di Cannero on Lago Maggiore  North
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
boat - non-specific
building - non-specific
countries and continents
Italy
Lago Maggiore
natural features (non-UK)
places
society
townscapes / man-made features
transport: water
<p>Turner's earliest drawings were topographical studies - views of picturesque monuments, or distant prospects of towns, concentrating on the buildings of chief architectural interest. By the 1840s, he had developed his own distinctive approach to this type of picture-making, creating images in which atmosphere, as suggested by richly coloured washes of watercolour, is of greater significance to the sense of place than a fastidious representation of individual detail.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique chalk crayon gouache watercolour
Castelli di Cannero on Lago Maggiore, from the North
support: 244 × 349 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>Turner's earliest <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>drawings</span></a> were topographical studies - views of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/picturesque" title="Glossary definition for 'Picturesque'"><span>picturesque</span></a> monuments, or  distant prospects of towns, concentrating on the buildings of chief architectural interest. By the 1840s, he had developed his own distinctive approach to this type of picture-making, creating images in which atmosphere, as suggested by richly coloured washes of <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>watercolour</span></a>, is of greater significance to the sense of place than a fastidious <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/r/representational" title="Glossary definition for 'Representational'"><span>representation</span></a> of individual detail.</p>
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architecture boat - non-specific building - non-specific countries and continents Italy Lago Maggiore natural features (non-UK) places society townscapes / man-made features transport: water
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