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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Second Italian Tour 1828-9 > Marseilles to Genoa Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner View of the Coastline to Roquebrune and Cap Martin, from the Rocher de Monaco 1828

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View of the Coastline to Roquebrune and Cap Martin, from the Rocher de Monaco’ 1828
Folio 24 Recto:
View of the Coastline to Roquebrune and Cap Martin, from the Rocher de Monaco 1828
D21179
Turner Bequest CCXXXI 24
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 174 mm
Inscribed by the artist in red ink ‘24’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXI 24’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The geographer and Turner researcher Roland Courtot has identified this sketch, drawn with the page turned horizontally, as a view of the coastline looking east towards Roquebrune and the Cap Martin, from the Prince’s Palace on the Rocher de Monaco.1 Part of the walls of the palace appear on the right-hand side of the composition with the northern slopes of the rocher dropping away to the bay of Monaco beyond. Masts of ships moored in the harbour can be seen in the foreground.
At the top of the page is a separate and schematic thumbnail sketch of the same part of the palace. A more detailed study of the façade can be found on folio 23 verso opposite (D21178) and a distant view can be seen on the verso of this leaf (D21180).

Nicola Moorby
March 2017

Revised by Hannah Kaspar
November 2024

1
Roland Courtot, ‘Les Carnets de William Turner: Recherches d’identification et de localisation des dessins’, unpublished research notes, Université de Provence à Aix, April 2008, p.5, as ‘Monaco’ (shared with former Tate cataloguer Nicola Moorby in email correspondence at that date).

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘View of the Coastline to Roquebrune and Cap Martin, from the Rocher de Monaco 1828’, catalogue entry, March 2017, revised by Hannah Kaspar, November 2024, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2025, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/view-of-the-coastline-to-roquebrune-and-cap-martin-from-the-rocher-de-monaco-r1209857, accessed 08 May 2025.