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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > St Peter's Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner View of the Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, with Sun Setting over the River Tiber 1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View of the Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, with Sun Setting over the River Tiber’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Verso:
View of the Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome, with Sun Setting over the River Tiber 1819
D16215
Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 33 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 189 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A highly schematic drawing of the Castel Sant’Angelo and the Ponte Sant’Angelo seen from the east, looking down-river, see folio 34 (D16214; Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 33). The sketch has been drawn with a soft pencil extremely swiftly and Turner has omitted the dome of St Peter’s which should be visible directly beyond the bridge. The gestural line of the reflection of light from the setting sun on the river is reminiscent of Turner’s watercolour, The Scarlet Sunset, (see Tate D24666; Turner Bequest CCLIX 101).

Nicola Moorby
September 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘View of the Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome, with Sun Setting over the River Tiber 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-view-of-the-castel-santangelo-rome-with-sun-setting-over-the-r1139726, accessed 26 April 2024.