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 > Gandolfo to Naples Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of a View of Terracina, with the Port and the Pisco Montano 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of a View of Terracina, with the Port and the Pisco Montano’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Recto:
Part of a View of Terracina, with the Port and the Pisco Montano 1819
D15601
Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 23
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 197 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘281’ bottom right and ‘23’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXIV 23’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner made a number of sketches at Terracina, a picturesque town on the Tyrrhenian coast approximately half-way between Rome and Naples. This drawing depicts part of a panoramic view of the port looking east towards the distant town of Sperlonga and the Bay of Gaeta. In the foreground, a group of figures, possibly fishermen, are seated on the beach near the water’s edge. The vista continues on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, with the heights of Monte Sant’Angelo, the Temple of Jupiter Anxur and the Pisco Montano, see folio 24 (D15601; Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 23).

Nicola Moorby
April 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Part of a View of Terracina, with the Port and the Pisco Montano 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-terracina-with-the-port-and-the-pisco-r1138063, accessed 18 September 2024.