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 the Casino di Raffaello 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Peter's and the Villa Medici, Rome, from the Casino di Raffaello’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Verso:
St Peter’s and the Villa Medici, Rome, from the Casino di Raffaello 1819
D16235
Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 44 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 189 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The sketch depicts the view looking south-west towards the Pincian Hill from a point near the gardens of the Villa Borghese. Along the horizon on the left can be seen the Villa Medici and distant St Peter’s. The building visible in the foreground on the right is the Casino di Raffaello, see folio 44 verso (D16233; Turner Bequest CLXXXVIIII 43a). A similar view can be found on folio 44 (D16232; Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 43).

Nicola Moorby
October 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘St Peter’s and the Villa Medici, Rome, from the Casino di Raffaello 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-the-casino-di-r1139747, accessed 25 April 2024.