'Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo

From Albano, Nemi, Rome Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CLXXXII

Date 1819

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 113 x 189 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D15315

Turner Bequest CLXXXII 11

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 11 Recto:

Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo 1819

D15315
Turner Bequest CLXXXII 11

Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm

Inscribed by the ?artist in pencil ‘11’ top left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ’11 top right and ‘301 ~~303~~’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXII 11’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Turner circled the Lake of Albano and made sketches from several different points. This view of the town of Castel Gandolfo from the opposite shore shows the dome of San Tommaso di Villanova and the adjacent buildings of the Pope’s summer villa. The position of the sun low in the sky, casting a rippled reflection on the water below, suggests that he was working at the end of the day as the sun was setting in the west beyond Castel Gandolfo. The view continues on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 10 verso (D15314).

For a full discussion of Turner’s depictions of Lake Albano see folio 3 verso (D15301) and the general introduction to the sketchbook.

Nicola Moorby
May 2008

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This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.