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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Porta San Giovanni, Rome 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Porta San Giovanni, Rome’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Recto:
The Porta San Giovanni, Rome 1819
D15366
Turner Bequest CLXXXII 38
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Mile’ bottom left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘38’ top right and ‘301’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXII 38’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch depicts the Porta San Giovanni, a gate in the southern stretch of the Aurelian Walls, near the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano. Characterised by rusticated white marble the gate was designed in the sixteenth century. To the left can be seen one of the two half oval towers of the older Roman gate, the Porta Asinaria, see also folios 36 and 73 verso (D15362 and D15436: Turner Bequest 72a).

Nicola Moorby
May 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘The Porta San Giovanni, Rome 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2008, 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-porta-san-giovanni-rome-r1132661, accessed 27 April 2024.