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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View of Molina with the Ponte del Diavolo 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View of Molina with the Ponte del Diavolo’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Verso:
View of Molina with the Ponte del Diavolo 1819
D15798
Turner Bequest CLXXXV 32 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject of this sketch is the town of Molina which lies in a valley (Valle Bonea) on the inland road between Naples and Salerno. Turner passed through en route towards the Amalfi coast and Paestum and this study depicts the view looking south in the direction of Vietri sul Mare and the sea. Visible in the foreground on the right is the dome of the Church of Madonna delle Neve whilst in the central middle distance is the Ponte del Diavolo, an aqueduct which was destroyed by a flood in 1954. For further views of Molina see folios 8 verso–9, 32 and 33 (D15752–D15753, D15797 and D15799), as well as the Naples, Paestum, Rome sketchbook (Tate D15988, D15991 and D15994; Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 39, 40a, 42).

Nicola Moorby
October 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘View of Molina with the Ponte del Diavolo 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 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-view-of-molina-with-the-ponte-del-diavolo-r1138265, accessed 27 June 2025.