Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin

At Gaeta

c.1794–8

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Artists: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Thomas Girtin 1775–1802
Part of: Album of Copies of Italian Views for Dr Thomas Monro
Medium: Ink wash and watercolour on paper
Dimensions: None
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D36469
Turner Bequest CCCLXXIII 56

Catalogue entry

This is after a drawing by John Robert Cozens (1752–1797), recorded in Beaumont tracing no.64 (after Cozens; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).1 Bell and Girtin describe the subject as a view ‘From near Formia looking across the bay, the promontory in the middle of the picture, wooded foreground’.

1

Bell and Girtin 1935, p.39 under no.98.

Verso:

Blank (laid down); the inscription (probably by Thomas Girtin in pencil) noted by Finberg and transcribed as the work’s title, ‘Gaeta’, is no longer apparent.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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