Joseph Mallord William Turner

View of Tivoli from Monte Catillo, with a Distant View of the Montes Corniculani

1819

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Tivoli to Rome Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 112 × 186 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D15083
Turner Bequest CLXXIX 82

Catalogue entry

This rough sketch appears to depict a view of Tivoli from Monte Catillo in the east, with the campanile of the Cathedral (Duomo) of San Lorenzo and the distant conical peaks of the Montes Corniculani (Horned Mountains), crowned by the villages of Montecelio and Sant’Angelo Romano.1 A related view can be found in the Naples: Rome C. Studies sketchbook (Tate D16119; Turner Bequest CLXXXVII 31).

Nicola Moorby
February 2010

See Thomas Ashby, ‘Turner at Tivoli’, Burlington Magazine, vol.25, no.136, July 1914, p.242.

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