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 58 Recto:
Part of a View of Tivoli Seen from the Valley 1819
D15034
Turner Bequest CLXXIX 58
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 186 mm
Inscribed in pencil by the artist ‘[?Olive]’ top left of sketch
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘58’ bottom left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIX 58’ bottom right, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough study of trees represents part of a landscape sketch continued from the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 58 (D15035). The view depicts olive trees in the valley to the north of Tivoli.

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-r1137668, accessed 26 April 2024.