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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > Naples, Paestum and Rome Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Nocera dei Pagani with Vesuvius 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Nocera dei Pagani with Vesuvius’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 46 Recto:
Distant View of Nocera dei Pagani with Vesuvius 1819
D15998
Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 44
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘44’ top right and ‘245’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXVI 44’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
During an expedition to Paestum in 1819, Turner took the nineteenth-century road between Naples and Salerno which passed the gates of Pompeii before entering the Lattari mountains at Nocera and Cava de’ Tirreni. This on-the-spot sketch appears to relate to the return journey by the same road and depicts a view from the east of Nocera dei Pagani (present-day Nocera Inferiore) with Vesuvius in the distance beyond.

Nicola Moorby
July 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Distant View of Nocera dei Pagani with Vesuvius 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-distant-view-of-nocera-dei-pagani-with-vesuvius-r1137922, accessed 25 April 2024.