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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin Portici: The Fortress in the Boschetto c.1794-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin, ‘Portici: The Fortress in the Boschetto’ c.1794-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Thomas Girtin 1775–1802
Folio 15 Recto:
Portici: The Fortress in the Boschetto c.1794–8
D36492
Turner Bequest CCCLXXIV 14
Pencil and grey and blue-grey wash on white wove paper, 160 x 236 mm mounted on white cartridge paper, 368 x 480 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘14’ on mount, top right
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXXIV – 14’ on mount, bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a copy of a drawing by John Robert Cozens (1752–1797), from which the title here has been taken; see Beckford Sketchbook II, p.16, dated ‘August 26 [1782]’ and titled ‘The Fortress in the Boschetto – Portici’ (Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, D1975.5.16).1
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Bell and Girtin 1935, p.57 under no.245; Charles Nugent, British Watercolours in the Whitworth Art Gallery, the University of Manchester: A Summary Catalogue of Drawings and Watercolours by Artists Born before 1880, London and Manchester 2003, p.92.
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Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Portici: The Fortress in the Boschetto c.1794–8 by Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin’, catalogue entry, April 2012, 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-thomas-girtin-portici-the-fortress-in-the-boschetto-r1140561, accessed 24 April 2024.