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 Itri from the South-East 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Itri from the South-East’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Recto:
Itri from the South-East 1819
D15605
Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 25
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 197 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘281’ bottom right and ‘25’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXIV 25’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This swift sketchy landscape drawing appears to depict Itri, a small historic city situated amidst the Arunci mountains on the nineteenth-century route between Rome and Naples. Turner’s view is from the south-east looking towards the castle and was probably executed from a moving carriage. For further studies see folio 25 verso (D15605; Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 24a) and the Naples, Paestum, Rome sketchbook (Tate D15952; Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 22).

Nicola Moorby
April 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Itri from the South-East 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-itri-from-the-south-east-r1138067, accessed 22 September 2024.