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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner St Peter's and the Villa Medici, Rome, from near the Gardens of the Villa Borghese 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Peter's and the Villa Medici, Rome, from near the Gardens of the Villa Borghese’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 44 Recto:
St Peter’s and the Villa Medici, Rome, from near the Gardens of the Villa Borghese 1819
D16232
Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 43
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 189 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘43’ bottom right (very faint)
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXVIII 43’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The sketch depicts the view looking south-west towards Villa Medici and the distant dome of St Peter’s from a point near the Porta Pinciana and the gardens of the Villa Borghese. The building in the bottom right-hand corner appears to be the Casino di Raffaello, the subject of a sketch on the following page, see folio 44 verso (D16233; Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 43a). A similar view can be found on folio 45 verso (D16235; Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 44a).

Nicola Moorby
October 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘St Peter’s and the Villa Medici, Rome, from near the Gardens of the Villa Borghese 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 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-st-peters-and-the-villa-medici-rome-from-near-the-gardens-of-r1139744, accessed 11 June 2026.