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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View of the Bay and Habour of Salerno; and ?View of the Lattari Mountains from Castellammare di Stabia 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View of the Bay and Habour of Salerno; and ?View of the Lattari Mountains from Castellammare di Stabia’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Recto:
View of the Bay and Habour of Salerno; and ?View of the Lattari Mountains from Castellammare di Stabia 1819
D15801
Turner Bequest CLXXXV 34
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘from the Bridge going to CastelaMarae’ top centre, inverted
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘278’ bottom right and ‘34’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXV 34’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The main sketch on this page depicts a view of the Bay of Salerno looking west from the harbour towards the Mole. Compare Turner’s copy of a similar view in Dr Monro’s Album of Italian Views (Tate D36471; Turner Bequest CCCLXXIII 58).
Also on this page is an inverted landscape sketch. Turner’s inscription suggests that his location is a bridge at Castellammare di Stabia (formerly known as Castellamare), on the road between Naples and Sorrento. The view therefore is likely to depict the Lattari Mountains of the Sorrentine peninsula. See also folio 58 verso (D15906; Turner Bequest CLXXXV 91).

Nicola Moorby
October 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘View of the Bay and Habour of Salerno; and ?View of the Lattari Mountains from Castellammare di Stabia 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-view-of-the-bay-and-habour-of-salerno-and-view-of-the-r1138268, accessed 26 April 2024.