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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Views of Nocera; and Two Figure Studies 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Views of Nocera; and Two Figure Studies’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 91 Recto:
Three Views of Nocera; and Two Figure Studies 1819
D16084
Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 89
Pencil on white wove paper, 189 x 113 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘[?Nonchese]’ and ‘Noceresa’ bottom of top sketch, and ‘[?Noncerila]’ and ‘[?Nocera]’ above centre sketch, and ‘[?Nocera] | de [?Pagani]’ bottom left of centre sketch
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘89’ top left, ascending left-hand edge, and ‘245’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXVI 89’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The three landscape views on this page are extremely rough and schematic but Turner’s inscriptions suggest that they represent Nocera dei Pagani (present-day Nocera Inferiore), a town amidst the Lattari mountains which formed part of the nineteenth-century route between Naples and Salerno. Turner passed through en route to Paestum, see folios 46 and 92 (D15998 and D16086; Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 44 and 90). Also on the sheet is a swift study of a couple of female figures.
For other sketches of Nocera see the Pompeii, Amalfi, Sorrento, Herculaneum sketchbook (Tate D15807; Turner Bequest CLXXXV 37).

Nicola Moorby
September 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Three Views of Nocera; and Two Figure Studies 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-three-views-of-nocera-and-two-figure-studies-r1138009, accessed 23 April 2024.