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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Five Landscape Sketches, probably in the Roman Campagna 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Five Landscape Sketches, probably in the Roman Campagna’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Verso:
Five Landscape Sketches, probably in the Roman Campagna 1819
D15408
Turner Bequest CLXXXII 58 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 189 x 113 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘olives’ left of second sketch from top
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The rough and jagged lines of these five landscape sketches suggest that they might have been drawn from a moving vehicle. Turner often drew swift impressions of the horizon in this way as he travelled from place to place. The locations here, including sketches depicting a medieval tower, are currently unidentified although they probably represent views of the Roman Campagna with mountains in the distance.

Nicola Moorby
May 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Five Landscape Sketches, probably in the Roman Campagna 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-five-landscape-sketches-probably-in-the-roman-campagna-r1132703, accessed 25 April 2024.