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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Sketches of Landscape in the Alban Hills, Including Castel Gandolfo and Frascati 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Sketches of Landscape in the Alban Hills, Including Castel Gandolfo and Frascati’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Recto:
Four Sketches of Landscape in the Alban Hills, Including Castel Gandolfo and Frascati 1819
D15343
Turner Bequest CLXXXII 26
Pencil on white wove paper, 189 x 113 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ’11 Nov r 1819 bottom left, running vertically left to right and ‘Frascati’ bottom underneath sketch and ‘[?Turret]’ or ‘[?Terrace]’ within box bottom left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘26’ top left, ascending left-hand edge and ‘301’ top right, ascdening right-hand edge
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXII 26’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has divided this page into four distinct landscape views. The schematic nature of the three uppermost sketches suggests that they might have been drawn quickly whilst on the move. Their rough appearance makes them difficult to identify although the second drawing from the top appears to be a view of Castel Gandolfo from the west. The locations of the other two remain unknown.
The last sketch at the bottom is more carefully delineated and was probably drawn at a different time. Turner has labelled this view ‘Frascati’ and it possibly shows one of the many villas which lie to the south and east of the town with the mountains in the distance beyond.
For a discussion of the inscribed date on this page see the general introduction to the sketchbook.

Nicola Moorby
May 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Four Sketches of Landscape in the Alban Hills, Including Castel Gandolfo and Frascati 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-four-sketches-of-landscape-in-the-alban-hills-including-r1132638, accessed 26 April 2024.