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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples from the North-West 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples from the North-West’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Recto:
Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples from the North-West 1819
D15819
Turner Bequest CLXXXV 45
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘278’ bottom right and ‘45’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXV 45’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject of this panoramic view is the Bay of Naples between Castel dell’Ovo and Mergellina, with Castel Sant’Elmo on the hill to the left and Vesuvius and the Sorrentine peninsula stretching along the horizon beyond. Turner’s viewpoint is from the north-west, possibly from the Posillipo Hill.

Nicola Moorby
October 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples from the North-West 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-vesuvius-and-the-bay-of-naples-from-the-north-west-r1138286, accessed 22 September 2024.