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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Studies of Sculptures, ?Nepi 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Studies of Sculptures, ?Nepi’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 89 Recto:
Studies of Sculptures, ?Nepi 1819
D14826
Turner Bequest CLXXVII 89
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 186 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘[?Juno]’ within pedestals on left, ‘[?Nepi]’ within pedestal in centre and ‘[?Cas]’ within pedestal on right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘89’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXVII 89’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains sketches from an Italian sculpture gallery. Turner has recorded three plinths containing respectively one draped standing female figure, one head and the third of which is empty. The subjects and location of the sketches is unidentified, although Thomas Ashby suggested that they may have been in the Municipio (Town Hall) in Nepi.1

Nicola Moorby
November 2008

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Thomas Ashby, unpublished notes, Turner Bequest Archive, Tate.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Studies of Sculptures, ?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-studies-of-sculptures-nepi-r1138989, accessed 20 September 2024.