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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner View from the Fontana dell'Acqua Acetosa, Rome, with the Ponte Molle and the Torre Lazzaroni 1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 51 Recto:
View from the Fontana dell’Acqua Acetosa, Rome, with the Ponte Molle and the Torre Lazzaroni 1819
D16139
Turner Bequest CLXXXVII 51
Pencil on white wove paper, 255 x 403 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘51’ bottom right, descending right-hand edge
Inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil ‘CLXXXVII. 51.’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXVII 51’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A large number of studies from the Naples: Rome C. Studies sketchbook represent variant views of the Roman Campagna, the area of countryside encircling the outskirts of the Eternal City (Tate D16122–D16139; Turner Bequest CLXXXVII 34–51). This sketch depicts a view of the landscape to the north of Rome from a point near the Fontana dell’Acqua Acetosa, a seventeenth century fountain designed by Andrea Sacchi which stands near the banks of the Tiber to the west of Monte Parioli. To the right, the river winds its way upstream through the Campagna to the distant mountains, whilst on the left it snakes downstream towards the Torre Lazzaroni and the Ponte Molle.
Verso:
Blank, save for inscription by an unknown hand in pencil ‘[?M]’ bottom right, ascending right-hand edge.

Nicola Moorby
April 2009

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘View from the Fontana dell’Acqua Acetosa, Rome, with the Ponte Molle and the Torre Lazzaroni 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2009, 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-from-the-fontana-dellacqua-acetosa-rome-with-the-ponte-r1132401, accessed 29 March 2024.