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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Studies of the Gate of the Chigi Park, Ariccia 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Studies of the Gate of the Chigi Park, Ariccia’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 84 Recto:
Studies of the Gate of the Chigi Park, Ariccia 1819
D15456
Turner Bequest CLXXXII 83
Pencil on white wove paper, 189 x 113 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘urn’ top right of bottom sketch
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘83’ top left, ascending left-hand edge and ‘301’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXII 83’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject of the sketches on this page is the gateway to the Chigi park in Ariccia from the ‘strada corriera’ (the ninteenth-century posting route).1 The road to the right of the gate in the lower sketch leads up the hill towards the town itself and the Church of Santa Maria dell’Assunta. A similar view can be found within the Naples, Paestum, Rome sketchbook (Tate D15949; Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 20a).
For a general discussion of Ariccia see folio 83 verso (D15455; Turner Bequest CLXXXII 82a).

Nicola Moorby
May 2008

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See a drawing of a similar view by Charles Joseph Lecointe, see Francesco Petrucci e Susanna Marra, Vedute dei Colli Albani e di Roma dall’album di viaggio di Charles Joseph Lecointe (1824–1886), exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Chigi, Ariccia 2006, no.42, p.60, reproduced.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Studies of the Gate of the Chigi Park, Ariccia 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-studies-of-the-gate-of-the-chigi-park-ariccia-r1132751, accessed 25 April 2024.