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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of a View of Tivoli, with the So-Called Temple of Vesta; and Two Sketches of the River Aniene 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of a View of Tivoli, with the So-Called Temple of Vesta; and Two Sketches of the River Aniene’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 64 Recto:
Part of a View of Tivoli, with the So-Called Temple of Vesta; and Two Sketches of the River Aniene 1819
D15046
Turner Bequest CLXXIX 64
Pencil on white wove paper, 186 x 112 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘White Houses’, bottom right of right-hand sketch
Inscribed in blue ink ‘64’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIX 64’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The left-hand side of this page contains part of a view of Tivoli which has spilled over from the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 63 verso (D15046). The sketch depicts the houses lining the banks of the River Aniene as it flows towards the so-called Temple of Vesta.
There are two further sketches on this sheet, drawn with the sketchbook held vertically. These appear to be views of the River Aniene, possibly looking respectively up- and down-river.

Nicola Moorby
February 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Part of a View of Tivoli, with the So-Called Temple of Vesta; and Two Sketches of the River Aniene 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-with-the-so-called-temple-of-vesta-r1137680, accessed 25 April 2024.