'The Town of Nemi from Genzano', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

The Town of Nemi from Genzano

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

D15337

Turner Bequest CLXXXII 23

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 23 Recto:

The Town of Nemi from Genzano 1819

D15337
Turner Bequest CLXXXII 23

Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm

Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘23’ top right and ‘301’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXII 23’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Cecilia Powell has identified the subject of this sketch as the town of Nemi above the lake of the same name.1 Turner’s viewpoint is from the opposite side of the lake, at a spot to the south-east of the town of Genzano. The panorama continues on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 22 verso, (D15336).

For a general discussion of Turner’s view of Lake Nemi see folio 19 (D15329).

Nicola Moorby
May 2008

Powell 1984, p.422.

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.