J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin On the Tiber near Ponte Molle c.1794-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin, ‘On the Tiber near Ponte Molle’ c.1794-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Thomas Girtin 1775–1802
Folio 50 Recto:
On the Tiber near Ponte Molle c.1794–8
D36463
Turner Bequest CCCLXXIII 50
Pencil and grey and grey-blue wash on white wove paper, 212 x 285 mm mounted on white cartridge paper, 363 x 495 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed in pencil ‘50’ on mount, top right
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXXIII – 50’ on mount, bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Compare the 1780 watercolour On the Tiber near Ponte Molle by John Robert Cozens (1752–1797) in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.1 Finberg transcribes C.F. Bell’s comment that this is an ‘exceedingly free rendering’ of Cozens’s subject.2 Another copy from a Cozens watercolour of 1780 is the view near the Porta Pinciana, Rome, on folio 49 recto (D36462).
1
Bell and Girtin 1935, p.43 no.133.
2
MS note, Tate catalogue files.
Verso:
Blank (laid down).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘On the Tiber near Ponte Molle c.1794–8 by Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin’, catalogue entry, April 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-thomas-girtin-on-the-tiber-near-ponte-molle-r1140635, accessed 20 April 2024.