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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View from the Camaldoli Hill, Looking West Towards Gaeta 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View from the Camaldoli Hill, Looking West Towards Gaeta’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 73 Verso:
View from the Camaldoli Hill, Looking West Towards Gaeta 1819
D15872
Turner Bequest CLXXXV 71 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Monk’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch is one of a series of panoramic views drawn from the hill of Camaldoli, the highest point in Naples and the surrounding area. The study depicts the vista looking west towards the Tyrrhenian coastline and the distant headland of Gaeta. A similar view can be seen on folio 74 (D15873; Turner Bequest CLXXXV 72). Turner has included a group of figures in the foreground of the scene, including one labelled ‘monk’ who is probably a member of the Camadolese order from the sixteenth-century monastery found at the summit of the hill.
For further views from Camaldoli see folio 73 (D15871; Turner Bequest CLXXXV 71).

Nicola Moorby
October 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘View from the Camaldoli Hill, Looking West Towards Gaeta 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-from-the-camaldoli-hill-looking-west-towards-gaeta-r1138343, accessed 19 September 2024.