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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin Naples: View from Posilippo, with the Castle of St Elmo in the Distance c.1796

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin, ‘Naples: View from Posilippo, with the Castle of St Elmo in the Distance’ c.1796
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Thomas Girtin 1775–1802
Naples: View from Posilippo, with the Castle of St Elmo in the Distance c.1796
D36566
Turner Bequest CCCLXXVI 7
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 242 x 196 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXXVI – 7’ 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 copied from a sketch by John Robert Cozens (1752–1797) in Beckford Sketchbook IV, p.6, inscribed ‘In the Road on the Top of Pausilippo – Octr 18 [1782] | Castle of St. Elmo’ with notes (Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, D1975.7.6).1
1
Bell and Girtin 1935, p.62 under no.290; 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.97.
Verso:
Blank

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Naples: View from Posilippo, with the Castle of St Elmo in the Distance 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-from-posilippo-with-the-castle-of-r1141296, accessed 25 April 2024.