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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of a Road among the Mountains, ?near Tivoli 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of a Road among the Mountains, ?near Tivoli’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 69 Verso:
Two Sketches of a Road among the Mountains, ?near Tivoli 1819
D15057
Turner Bequest CLXXIX 69 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 186 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Road’ bottom right. Also ‘Rock | Road [?bushy] [?brown] olives Girls Gathering’ and ‘Road’ bottom of sketch on left-hand side
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The rough, schematic nature of the two sketches on this page makes identification difficult but they appear to depict a road amongst mountains, probably near Tivoli.

Nicola Moorby
February 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Two Sketches of a Road among the Mountains, ?near Tivoli 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-two-sketches-of-a-road-among-the-mountains-near-tivoli-r1137691, accessed 25 April 2024.