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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Fountain on the Via dell'Abbondanza, at the Back of the Building of Eumachia, Pompeii 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fountain on the Via dell'Abbondanza, at the Back of the Building of Eumachia, Pompeii’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Fountain on the Via dell’Abbondanza, at the Back of the Building of Eumachia, Pompeii 1819
D15765
Turner Bequest CLXXXV 15 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch represents a view of the Via dell’Abbondanza (Street of Abundance), one of the main thoroughfares of Pompeii which runs from the south-east corner of the Forum to the Porta di Sarno on the far eastern perimeter of the city walls. Turner’s sketch depicts a public fountain near the junction with the Vicolo di Eumachia at the back of the Building of Eumachia.1 Comprised of a stone basin and a tablet decorated with a woman holding a cornucopia or ‘horn of plenty’, the fountain gives the street its name.
For further sketches and a general discussion of Turner’s visit to Pompeii see the introduction to the sketchbook.

Nicola Moorby
September 2010

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See http://pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/Fountains/Fountain%2070967.htm, accessed September 2010.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Fountain on the Via dell’Abbondanza, at the Back of the Building of Eumachia, Pompeii 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-fountain-on-the-via-dellabbondanza-at-the-back-of-the-r1138231, accessed 26 April 2024.