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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Remains of the Ponti Rossi Aqueduct, Naples 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Remains of the Ponti Rossi Aqueduct, Naples’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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?Remains of the Ponti Rossi Aqueduct, Naples 1819
D15959
Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 25 a
Pencil on white wove paper, approximately 66 x 113 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘[...] Way Is clear of [?Neapolitan] Wall’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The arches in the foreground of this landscape sketch are tentatively identified as the ruins of the Ponti Rossi, part of the ancient Roman Serino aqueduct which can be found between the Capodimonte and Capodichino districts in Naples.

Nicola Moorby
July 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘?Remains of the Ponti Rossi Aqueduct, Naples 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-remains-of-the-ponti-rossi-aqueduct-naples-r1137883, accessed 22 July 2025.