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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Gardens of the Villa d'Este, Tivoli, seen from the Casino 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Gardens of the Villa d'Este, Tivoli, seen from the Casino’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Verso:
The Gardens of the Villa d’Este, Tivoli, seen from the Casino 1819
D14940
Turner Bequest CLXXIX 4 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 186 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject of this sketch is the Villa d’Este in Tivoli, a sixteenth-century villa and formal Renaissance garden built for Cardinal Ippolito d’Este (1509–1572), the son of Lucrezia Borgia. Turner’s panoramic view is taken from the high vantage point of the principal casino looking west in the direction of Rome, and sweeps down across the landscaped estate with its terraced gardens, structured walkways and tall cypress trees. The drawing continues on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 5 (D14941). Turner filled several pages of the Tivoli and Rome sketchbook with studies of the Villa d’Este. For a full discussion see folio 5 verso (D14942).

Nicola Moorby
January 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘The Gardens of the Villa d’Este, Tivoli, seen from the Casino 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 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-the-gardens-of-the-villa-deste-tivoli-seen-from-the-casino-r1137572, accessed 19 April 2024.