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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of a View of the Posillipo Coast; and the ?Church of Sant'Antonio a Posillipo, Naples 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of a View of the Posillipo Coast; and the ?Church of Sant'Antonio a Posillipo, Naples’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Verso
Part of a View of the Posillipo Coast; and the ?Church of Sant’Antonio a Posillipo, Naples 1819
D16040
Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 66 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘St Antoine’ bottom right of sketch parallel with right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The main drawing on this page forms part of a landscape composition continued on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 69 (D16041; Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 67). It appears to depict part of the Posillipo coastline to the west of Naples, although the precise location is currently unidentified.
The subject of the sketch on the right-hand side, parallel with the right-hand edge, is not conclusively identified although it may depict the church of Sant’Antonio a Posillipo, situated on the eastern slopes of the Posillipo Hill near Virgil’s Tomb and the entrance to the Grotto of Posillipo.

Nicola Moorby
July 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Part of a View of the Posillipo Coast; and the ?Church of Sant’Antonio a Posillipo, 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-the-posillipo-coast-and-the-church-of-r1137964, accessed 20 September 2024.