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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > Albano, Nemi, Rome Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner View Looking South from the Palatine Hill, Rome 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View Looking South from the Palatine Hill, Rome’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 76 Recto:
View Looking South from the Palatine Hill, Rome 1819
D15441
Turner Bequest CLXXXII 75
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘75’ bottom left, inverted, and ‘301’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXII 75’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The buildings and distant mountains in this inverted sketch continue a view of Rome from the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 75 verso (D15440; Turner Bequest CLXXXII 74a). The drawing records the vista looking south-west from the substructures of the ruined Palace of Septimius Severus on the Palatine Hill. A further prospect from a similar viewpoint can be found on folios 51 verso-52 (D15393–D15394; Turner Bequest CLXXXII 50a–51) and in the Small Roman C. Studies sketchbook (Tate D16418–D16419; Turner Bequest CXC 16–17).

Nicola Moorby
May 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘View Looking South from the Palatine Hill, Rome 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-view-looking-south-from-the-palatine-hill-rome-r1132736, accessed 25 April 2024.