'Studies of the Gate of the Chigi Park, Ariccia', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Studies of the Gate of the Chigi Park, Ariccia

From Albano, Nemi, Rome Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CLXXXII

Date 1819

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 189 x 113 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D15456

Turner Bequest CLXXXII 83

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 84 Recto:

Studies of the Gate of the Chigi Park, Ariccia 1819

D15456
Turner Bequest CLXXXII 83

Pencil on white wove paper, 189 x 113 mm

Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘urn’ top right of bottom sketch
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘83’ top left, ascending left-hand edge and ‘301’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXII 83’ top right, ascending right-hand edge

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

The subject of the sketches on this page is the gateway to the Chigi park in Ariccia from the ‘strada corriera’ (the ninteenth-century posting route).1 The road to the right of the gate in the lower sketch leads up the hill towards the town itself and the Church of Santa Maria dell’Assunta. A similar view can be found within the Naples, Paestum, Rome sketchbook (Tate D15949; Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 20a).

For a general discussion of Ariccia see folio 83 verso (D15455; Turner Bequest CLXXXII 82a).

Nicola Moorby
May 2008

See a drawing of a similar view by Charles Joseph Lecointe, see Francesco Petrucci e Susanna Marra, Vedute dei Colli Albani e di Roma dall’album di viaggio di Charles Joseph Lecointe (1824–1886), exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Chigi, Ariccia 2006, no.42, p.60, reproduced.

Read this catalogue entry in full

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