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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Panoramic View from the Villa d'Este, Tivoli 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Panoramic View from the Villa d'Este, Tivoli’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Recto:
Panoramic View from the Villa d’Este, Tivoli 1819
D14998
Turner Bequest CLXXIX 39
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 186 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘39’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIX 39’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner devoted several sketchbook pages to studies of the Villa d’Este, a sixteenth-century villa and formal Renaissance garden in Tivoli built for Cardinal Ippolito d’Este (1509–1572), the son of Lucrezia Borgia. This drawing, continued on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 38 verso (D14997), depicts part of a panoramic 180-degree view from the Gran Loggia of the villa looking east across the gardens towards the bell-tower of the Duomo and the façade of the casino.
For a full discussion of Turner’s sketches of the Villa d’Este see folio 5 verso (D14942).

Nicola Moorby
January 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Panoramic View from the Villa d’Este, 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-panoramic-view-from-the-villa-deste-tivoli-r1137630, accessed 26 April 2024.