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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin Naples: View over the City from Capodimonte c.1796

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin, ‘Naples: View over the City from Capodimonte’ c.1796
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Thomas Girtin 1775–1802
Naples: View over the City from Capodimonte c.1796
D36536
Turner Bequest CCCLXXV 15
Pencil and grey and ?blue-grey wash on white wove paper, 267 x 423 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXXV – 15’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Provenance:
Probably commissioned by Dr Thomas Monro
Monro’s posthumous sale, Christie’s, London, 26–28 June and 1–2 July 1833 (day and lot number not known)
Bought by or on behalf of Turner
This was presumably copied from a sketch or watercolour by John Robert Cozens (1752–1797).
Technical notes:
The sheet is faded and discoloured from prolonged exposure.
Verso:
Blank; inscribed by Thomas Girtin in pencil ‘From the Kings palace at Capo de Monte’; also ‘St Martino’ over relevant building on recto; and in a later hand ‘No 28’; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Naples: View over the City from Capodimonte c.1796 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-naples-view-over-the-city-from-capodimonte-r1141280, accessed 24 April 2024.