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 > Naples, Paestum and Rome Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Vesuvius from the Castel Sant'Elmo Hill, Naples 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Vesuvius from the Castel Sant'Elmo Hill, Naples’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Recto:
Vesuvius from the Castel Sant’Elmo Hill, Naples 1819
D16010
Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 50
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘50’ bottom left, inverted and ‘245’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXVI 50’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough outline view of Vesuvius appears to have been taken from the Castel Sant’Elmo / San Martino Hill in Naples. A similar sketch can be found on folio 52 verso (D16011; Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 50a).

Nicola Moorby
July 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Vesuvius from the Castel Sant’Elmo Hill, 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-vesuvius-from-the-castel-santelmo-hill-naples-r1137934, accessed 25 April 2024.