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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Landscape Sketches; ?Including a Distant View of Vesuvius, and Ruins at Gaeta 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Landscape Sketches; ?Including a Distant View of Vesuvius, and Ruins at Gaeta’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 46 verso:
Landscape Sketches; ?Including a Distant View of Vesuvius, and Ruins at Gaeta 1819
D15999
Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 44 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Gaeta’ bottom centre. Also ‘[?...]’ bottom left of second sketch parallel with right-hand side
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The various landscape sketches on this page are too rough to be positively identified. However one may represent a distant view of Vesuvius (bottom left, parallel with left-hand edge), and another is inscribed ‘Gaeta’ (bottom right, parallel with right-hand edge), a town on the Tyrrhenian coast between Terracina and Formia on the nineteenth-century route between Rome and Naples.

Nicola Moorby
July 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Landscape Sketches; ?Including a Distant View of Vesuvius, and Ruins at Gaeta 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-landscape-sketches-including-a-distant-view-of-vesuvius-and-r1137923, accessed 23 September 2024.