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 > Pompeii, Amalfi, &c., Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Ponte del Diavolo, Molina 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ponte del Diavolo, Molina’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Recto:
Ponte del Diavolo, Molina 1819
D15799
Turner Bequest CLXXXV 33
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘11 | [?Gold]’ top centre left
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘278’ bottom right and ‘33’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXV 33’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The Ponte del Diavolo was an aqueduct which spanned the valley of Bonea near the town of Molina. It formed part of the nineteenth-century inland road between Naples and Salerno and Turner passed through en route to the Amalfi coast and Paestum. He made several sketches of the bridge which was destroyed by flood-waters in 1954, see folios 8 verso, 32 verso–33 (D15752, D15798–D15799) and the Naples, Paestum, Rome sketchbook (Tate D15988, D15991 and D15994; Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 39, 40a, 42).

Nicola Moorby
October 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Ponte del Diavolo, Molina 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 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-ponte-del-diavolo-molina-r1138266, accessed 25 April 2024.