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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches of Lake Avernus; ?and a View within the Campi Flegri 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches of Lake Avernus; ?and a View within the Campi Flegri’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 72 Recto:
Three Sketches of Lake Avernus; ?and a View within the Campi Flegri 1819
D15697
Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 70
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 197 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘281’ bottom right and ‘70’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXIV 70’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches of Lake Avernus, a volcanic crater near Pozzuoli, including part of the composition from the opposite sheet of the double-page spread. See this entry, folio 71 verso (D15696; Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 69a) for a discussion of the lake and Turner’s depiction of it.
There is another landscape sketch in the top right-hand corner which is currently unidentified although it probably depicts somewhere in the Campi Flegrei (Phlegraean or Burning Fields), the volcanic peninsula to the west of Naples.

Nicola Moorby
June 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Three Sketches of Lake Avernus; ?and a View within the Campi Flegri 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-sketches-of-lake-avernus-and-a-view-within-the-campi-r1138158, accessed 26 April 2024.