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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of a View of ?Mergellina from Naples 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of a View of ?Mergellina from Naples’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Recto:
Part of a View of ?Mergellina from Naples 1819
D15938
Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 16
Pencil on white wove paper, approximately 113 x 130 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘16’ top right and ‘245’ bottom left
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXVI 16’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject of the landscape sketch on this partial, torn page appears to be a distant view of the Mergellina coastline, south-west of Naples, with the Posillipo Hill beyond. The vantage point may be the Chiaia waterfront. The composition continues on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 15 verso (D15937).

Nicola Moorby
July 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Part of a View of ?Mergellina from Naples 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2010, 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-part-of-a-view-of-mergellina-from-naples-r1137862, accessed 19 September 2024.