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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Capua from the North 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Capua from the North’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Verso:
Capua from the North 1819
D15620
Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 32 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 197 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Capua’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As Turner’s inscription identifies, this sketch depicts Capua, a town approximately sixteen miles north of Naples which formed a staging post on the nineteenth-century route from Rome. The view is taken from the northern approach to the town with the Volturno river in the foreground and the peak of Monte Tifata visible in the background. Further studies of Capua can be seen on folios 33 and 34–35 verso (D15619 and D15621–D15624; Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 32 and 33–34a).

Nicola Moorby
April 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Capua from the North 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-capua-from-the-north-r1138082, accessed 26 April 2024.