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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Town of Nemi from Genzano 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Town of Nemi from Genzano’ 1819
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
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

1
Powell 1984, p.422.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘The Town of Nemi from Genzano 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2008, 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-the-town-of-nemi-from-genzano-r1132632, accessed 26 April 2024.