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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant Mountains North-East of Rome; and a Study of a Stone Pine 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant Mountains North-East of Rome; and a Study of a Stone Pine’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Verso:
Distant Mountains North-East of Rome; and a Study of a Stone Pine 1819
D16519
Turner Bequest CXCI 18 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two sketches. At the bottom is a study of a Mediterranean stone or umbrella pine tree. The upper landscape meanwhile, was identified by Thomas Ashby as a distant view of the mountains to the north-east of Rome.1 This is the Monti Lucretili range, including the highest peak of Monte Gennaro. Turner’s viewpoint may be one of the upper storeys of the Villa Borghese palace, see folio 20 (D16522).

Nicola Moorby
November 2010

1
Thomas Ashby, unpublished notes, Turner Bequest Archive, Tate.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Distant Mountains North-East of Rome; and a Study of a Stone Pine 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 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-distant-mountains-north-east-of-rome-and-a-study-of-a-stone-r1138412, accessed 21 September 2024.