Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin

Rome: A Wall with Trees Overhanging a Street near the Porta Pinciana

c.1794–8

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In Tate Britain

Prints and Drawings Room

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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
D36462
Turner Bequest CCCLXXIII 49

Catalogue entry

Compare the watercolour painted by John Robert Cozens (1752–1797) for Ozias Humphry (1742–1810) in 1780.1 For another copy from a 1780 watercolour by Cozens see folio 50 recto (D36463).
The work is mounted with the album page turned vertically.
1
Bell and Girtin 1935, p.42 no.118.
Verso:
Blank (laid down).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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