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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of a Landscape near the Ponte Molle, Rome 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of a Landscape near the Ponte Molle, Rome’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 37 Verso:
Part of a Landscape near the Ponte Molle, Rome 1819
D16219
Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 36 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 189 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch is part of a view of the Roman countryside near the Ponte Molle. The drawing continues on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 38 (D16220; Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 37).
The building visible here on the left is probably the same one which appears on the right-hand side of a watercolour of a similar view in the Naples: Rome C. Studies sketchbook (see Tate D16133; Turner Bequest CLXXXVII 45).

Nicola Moorby
September 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Part of a Landscape near the Ponte Molle, 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-part-of-a-landscape-near-the-ponte-molle-rome-r1139731, accessed 19 April 2024.