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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Under the Portico of the Pantheon, Rome 1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Under the Portico of the Pantheon, Rome’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Recto:
Under the Portico of the Pantheon, Rome 1819
D16209
Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 29
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 189 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXVIII 29’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s viewpoint for this sketch is inside the eastern end of the portico of the Pantheon, looking out towards the Piazza della Rotonda. The front of the portico is comprised of eight Corinthian columns in grey granite with pairs of red granite columns set at intervals behind.
For a general discussion of the Pantheon see folio 29 (D16208; Turner Bequest, CLXXXVIII 28). Another sketch of the portico can be found of folio 65 (D16272; Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 64).

Nicola Moorby
September 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Under the Portico of the Pantheon, Rome 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-under-the-portico-of-the-pantheon-rome-r1139720, accessed 23 September 2024.