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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Vesuvius Seen from Marechiaro 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Vesuvius Seen from Marechiaro’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 78 Verso:
Distant View of Vesuvius Seen from Marechiaro 1819
D16060
Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 76 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The small village of Marechiaro lies on the Posillipo coastline to the west of Naples. This sketch is taken from the rocky shoreline looking east towards distant Vesuvius. The pointed bell-tower in the centre of the composition represents the Church of Santa Maria del Faro but the building on the cliffs to the left is currently unidentified.

Nicola Moorby
August 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Distant View of Vesuvius Seen from Marechiaro 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-distant-view-of-vesuvius-seen-from-marechiaro-r1137984, accessed 20 September 2024.