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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Nepi 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Nepi’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 78 Recto:
Distant View of Nepi 1819
D14805
Turner Bequest CLXXVII 78
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 186 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘The [?Nepi ?Gorge]’ and ‘in Nepi’ bottom centre left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘78’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXVII 78’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
After Civita Castellana, Turner’s route to Rome led him south-west to Nepi, a town approximately twenty-three miles north of the Eternal City. Turner’s inscription on this sketch suggests that his rough drawing of buildings above a gorge depicts a distant view of Nepi from the village of Castel Sant’Elia.

Nicola Moorby
November 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Distant View of Nepi 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2008, 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-view-of-nepi-r1138968, accessed 23 September 2024.