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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin Rome: View from the Palatine Hill, with the Palace of Augustus in the Foreground c.1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin, ‘Rome: View from the Palatine Hill, with the Palace of Augustus in the Foreground’ c.1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Thomas Girtin 1775–1802
Rome: View from the Palatine Hill, with the Palace of Augustus in the Foreground c.1796–7
D36554
Turner Bequest CCCLXXV 33
Pencil and grey and blue wash on white wove paper, 234 x 554 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXXV – 33’ 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
The pencil work is by Girtin. This was presumably copied from a sketch or watercolour by John Robert Cozens (1752–1797).
Verso:
Blank; inscribed by Thomas Girtin in pencil ‘Ruins of Augustus Palace on the | Palatine Hill’, ‘mountains near Tivoli’, ‘[?M M Scinthio]’, ‘Walls of Rome’, ‘Baths of Titus’, ‘Coliseo | light thro’, ‘a convent’; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.
The inscriptions correspond with the subjects shown in the drawing, behind which they are written. Compare 19.33 (D36536; TB CCCLXXV 15).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Rome: View from the Palatine Hill, with the Palace of Augustus in the Foreground c.1796–7 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-rome-view-from-the-palatine-hill-with-the-r1141283, accessed 16 April 2024.