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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant Views of Vesuvius, ?from Torre Annunziata 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant Views of Vesuvius, ?from Torre Annunziata’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Recto:
Distant Views of Vesuvius, ?from Torre Annunziata 1819
D16000
Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 45
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘[?...lli]’ top centre, and ‘[?Tour de Anun...]’ bottom centre of middle sketch
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘45’ bottom left, inverted and ‘245’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXVI 45’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The five landscape sketches on this page are too rough to be positively identified. However at least three appear to be distant views of Vesuvius, possibly from the town of Torre Annunziata on the nineteenth-century route between Naples and Salerno.

Nicola Moorby
July 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Distant Views of Vesuvius, ?from Torre Annunziata 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-views-of-vesuvius-from-torre-annunziata-r1137924, accessed 25 April 2024.