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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of a View of Tivoli with Santa Maria del Ponte; and Buildings in a Landscape 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of a View of Tivoli with Santa Maria del Ponte; and Buildings in a Landscape’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 43 Verso:
Part of a View of Tivoli with Santa Maria del Ponte; and Buildings in a Landscape 1819
D15007
Turner Bequest CLXXIX 43 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 186 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing on the left-hand side of the page represents part of a view of Tivoli, continued from the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 44 (D15008). The featured building is the Church of Santa Maria del Ponte, which stood near the eastern end of the Ponte San Rocco. It was demolished during the works to divert the course of the River Aniene away from the residential district following a great flood in 1826.1
On the right-hand side of the page is a separate sketch, drawn with the sketchbook held vertically. The subject is currently unidentified but it appears to represent buildings within a landscape, possibly the Villa Adriana on the outskirts of Tivoli.

Nicola Moorby
February 2010

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Franco Sciaretta, Viaggio a Tivoli, Tivoli 2001, p.219.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Part of a View of Tivoli with Santa Maria del Ponte; and Buildings in a Landscape 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2010, 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-part-of-a-view-of-tivoli-with-santa-maria-del-ponte-and-r1137639, accessed 15 June 2025.