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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of a Bell-Shaped Crater Standing on the Puteal of the Twelve Gods from the Galleria of the Palazzo Nuovo, in the Capitoline Museums, Rome 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study of a Bell-Shaped Crater Standing on the Puteal of the Twelve Gods from the Galleria of the Palazzo Nuovo, in the Capitoline Museums, Rome’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Recto:
Study of a Bell-Shaped Crater Standing on the Puteal of the Twelve Gods from the Galleria of the Palazzo Nuovo, in the Capitoline Museums, Rome 1819
D15218
Turner Bequest CLXXX 58
Pencil on white wove paper, 161 x 101 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘The God’ and ‘[?1]’ bottom right of sketch
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘58’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXX 58’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In addition to sketching in the Vatican Museums, Turner made a thorough study of the ancient Greek and Roman sculptures in the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museums. Cecilia Powell first identified the subject of this drawing as a bell-shaped crater (vase) decorated with a design of trailing acanthus leaves and convex flutes at the base,1 set upon a puteal (wellhead) decorated with a relief of twelve gods.2 Both objects stand in the Galleria (Gallery) of the Palazzo Nuovo.
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Powell 1984, p.421; H. Stuart Jones A Catalogue of the Ancient Sculptures preserved in the Municipal Collections of Rome. The Sculptures of the Museo Capitolino, Oxford 1912, ‘Galleria’ no.31a, p.105, reproduced pl.28. See also the Capitoline Museums online collection records, http://www.museicapitolini.net/urn?urn=urn:collectio:0001:scu:00275.
2
Powell 1984, p.421; Jones 1912, no.31b, p.106, reproduced pl.29. See also http://www.museicapitolini.net/urn?urn=urn:collectio:0001:scu:01919.
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Nicola Moorby
November 2009

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Study of a Bell-Shaped Crater Standing on the Puteal of the Twelve Gods from the Galleria of the Palazzo Nuovo, in the Capitoline Museums, Rome 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2009, 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-study-of-a-bell-shaped-crater-standing-on-the-puteal-of-the-r1139630, accessed 25 April 2024.