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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Sketches at Nocera dei Pagani 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Sketches at Nocera dei Pagani’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 37 Recto:
Four Sketches at Nocera dei Pagani 1819
D15807
Turner Bequest CLXXXV 37
Pencil on white wove paper, 189 x 113 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Nocerra’ bottom centre right of second sketch from bottom
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘278’ bottom left, descending left-hand edge, and ‘37’ bottom right, descending right-hand edge
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXV 37’ bottom left, descending left-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s inscription suggests that the subject of these four sketches is Nocera dei Pagani (present-day Nocera Inferiore), a town on the inland road between Naples and Salerno where the route enters the Lattari Mountains. In the third view from the top the smoking crater of Vesuvius can be seen in the distance on the left-hand side. For other views of Nocera see the Naples, Paestum, Rome sketchbook (Tate D15998, D16084 and D16086; Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 44, 89 and 90).

Nicola Moorby
October 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Four Sketches at Nocera dei Pagani 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-four-sketches-at-nocera-dei-pagani-r1138274, accessed 25 April 2024.