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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?View of the Posillipo Hill 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?View of the Posillipo Hill’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 53 Recto:
?View of the Posillipo Hill 1819
D15658
Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 51
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 197 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Vines’ centre left-hand edge and ‘Heap Vg’ bottom centre left
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘281’ top left, inverted and ‘51’ bottom left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXIV 51’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject of this landscape sketch is tentatively identified as a view of the Posillipo Hill with a villa described in a sketch by John Robert Cozens (1752–1797) as ‘Casino Sannazaro’.1 A similar view can be found in the Naples: Rome C. Studies sketchbook (Tate D16097; Turner Bequest CLXXXVII 10). Alternatively it may represent the Vomero Hill in Naples.

Nicola Moorby
November 2010

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Casino Sannazaro at Posillipo 1793 (Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester), reproduced in Anthony Blunt, Catalogue of Seven Sketch-Books by John Robert Cozens, Sothebys, London 1973, vol.III, no.23.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘?View of the Posillipo Hill 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 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-view-of-the-posillipo-hill-r1138120, accessed 24 April 2024.