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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of a View of Tivoli, seen from the Valley 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of a View of Tivoli, seen from the Valley’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 57 Recto:
Part of a View of Tivoli, seen from the Valley 1819
D15032
Turner Bequest CLXXIX 57
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 186 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Rock’ top left, ‘Light’ top right and ‘Cascade | Fall’ bottom right of sketch
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘57’ bottom left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIX 57’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains a small part of a sketch of Tivoli which spills over from the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 56 verso (D15031). The view depicts the town and the Santuario di Ercole Vincitore seen from the floor of the valley to the north, and visible on this side is a medieval watch-tower and the arcades supporting the nearby Piazza dell’Olmo (present-day Piazza Domenico Tani).

Nicola Moorby
February 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Part of a View of Tivoli, seen from the Valley 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-part-of-a-view-of-tivoli-seen-from-the-valley-r1137666, accessed 26 April 2024.