Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas GirtinRome: Ruins on the Palatine Hill c.1794-8

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Artwork details

Artists
Thomas Girtin (1775‑1802)
Title
Rome: Ruins on the Palatine Hill
Date c.1794-8
MediumInk wash and watercolour on paper
Collection
Tate
Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D36426
Turner Bequest CCCLXXIII 13
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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Thomas Girtin 1775–1802
Folio 13 Recto:
Rome: Ruins on the Palatine Hill c.1794–8
D36426
Turner Bequest CCCLXXIII 13
Pencil and grey and grey-blue wash on white wove paper, 203 x 269 mm mounted on white cartridge paper, 363 x 495 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed in pencil ‘13’ on mount, top right
Inscribed in a later hand in pencil ‘“Palatine Hill”’ on mount, bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXXIII – 13’ on mount, bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Verso:
Blank (laid down); inscribed, probably by Thomas Girtin, in pencil, ‘Palatine Hill’.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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