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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Tomb of the Plautii, near Tivoli 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Tomb of the Plautii, near Tivoli’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 31 Verso:
The Tomb of the Plautii, near Tivoli 1819
D14983
Turner Bequest CLXXIX 31 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 186 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject of this sketch is the Tomb of the Plautius family (or Tomb of the Plautii), a cylindrical first-century funerary monument of Travertine stone, which stands on the Via Valeria, approximately two miles west of Tivoli. This view shows the structure from the south, at a point near the eastern end of the bridge. Visible on the left are the monumental slabs commemorating the names of the family members buried within. For other studies of the tomb and the adjacent Ponte Lucano see folio 27 verso (D14975).

Nicola Moorby
January 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘The Tomb of the Plautii, near Tivoli 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 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-the-tomb-of-the-plautii-near-tivoli-r1137615, accessed 24 April 2024.