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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin The Tomb of Plautus, near Tivoli c.1794-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin, ‘The Tomb of Plautus, near Tivoli’ c.1794-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Thomas Girtin 1775–1802
Folio 6 Recto:
The Tomb of Plautus, near Tivoli c.1794–8
D36419
Turner Bequest CCCLXXIII 6
Pencil and grey and grey-blue wash on white wove paper, 203 x 264 mm mounted on white cartridge paper, 363 x 495 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed in pencil ‘6’ on mount, top right
Inscribed in a later hand in pencil ‘“Tomb of | Plautius near | Tivoli”’ on mount, bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXXIII – 6’ on mount, bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Verso:
Blank (laid down); inscribed, probably by Thomas Girtin, in pencil ‘Tomb of | Plautius near | Tivoli’.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Tomb of Plautus, near Tivoli 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-the-tomb-of-plautus-near-tivoli-r1140591, accessed 18 April 2024.