'Three Views of the Road and Walls Outside of Ariccia', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Three Views of the Road and Walls Outside of 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

D15457

Turner Bequest CLXXXII 83 a

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 84 Verso:

Three Views of the Road and Walls Outside of Ariccia 1819

D15457
Turner Bequest CLXXXII 83 a

Pencil on white wove paper, 189 x 113 mm

Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Wall of Lariccia’ and ‘Sea’ top right and ‘Road to L’ bottom right of middle sketch

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

These three sketches document Turner’s approach to Ariccia on the road from Albano. Prior to the building of a great viaduct in 1854, travellers arriving from the north-west would have taken the route through the valley, now know as the Parco Chigi, with the town on the escarpment above them and the sea on the right.

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

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.