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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View of Tivoli from Monte Catillo, with a Distant View of the Montes Corniculani 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View of Tivoli from Monte Catillo, with a Distant View of the Montes Corniculani’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 83 Recto:
View of Tivoli from Monte Catillo, with a Distant View of the Montes Corniculani 1819
D15083
Turner Bequest CLXXIX 82
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 186 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Town’ near centre left-hand edge
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘82’ bottom left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIX 82’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough sketch appears to depict a view of Tivoli from Monte Catillo in the east, with the campanile of the Cathedral (Duomo) of San Lorenzo and the distant conical peaks of the Montes Corniculani (Horned Mountains), crowned by the villages of Montecelio and Sant’Angelo Romano.1 A related view can be found in the Naples: Rome C. Studies sketchbook (Tate D16119; Turner Bequest CLXXXVII 31).

Nicola Moorby
February 2010

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See Thomas Ashby, ‘Turner at Tivoli’, Burlington Magazine, vol.25, no.136, July 1914, p.242.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘View of Tivoli from Monte Catillo, with a Distant View of the Montes Corniculani 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-view-of-tivoli-from-monte-catillo-with-a-distant-view-of-the-r1137718, accessed 19 April 2024.