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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of a View of Vesuvius from Castel Sant'Elmo, Naples 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of a View of Vesuvius from Castel Sant'Elmo, Naples’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 53 Recto:
Part of a View of Vesuvius from Castel Sant’Elmo, Naples 1819
D16012
Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 51
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘51’ bottom left, inverted and ‘245’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXVI 51’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The details on this page represent part of a landscape composition which has spilled over from the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 52 verso (D16011; Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 50a). The subject is a view of Vesuvius from the hill of Castel Sant’Elmo in Naples.

Nicola Moorby
July 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Part of a View of Vesuvius from Castel Sant’Elmo, Naples 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-part-of-a-view-of-vesuvius-from-castel-santelmo-naples-r1137936, accessed 25 April 2024.