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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of a View of Naples and Vesuvius from Mergellina 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of a View of Naples and Vesuvius from Mergellina’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 66 Verso:
Part of a View of Naples and Vesuvius from Mergellina 1819
D16036
Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 64 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough outline sketch represents part of a view of Naples from Mergellina, a small fishing village and port about a mile west of the main city between the Chiaia waterfront and Posillipo. The vista looks east towards the Pizzofalcone Hill and the small headland of Castel dell’Ovo with Vesuvius in the distance. The composition continues on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread with Castel Sant’Elmo and the Mergellina seafront, see folio 67 (D16037; Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 65). Related sketches can be found on folios 64 verso–65 (D16032–D16033; Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 62a–63).

Nicola Moorby
July 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Part of a View of Naples and Vesuvius from Mergellina 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-naples-and-vesuvius-from-mergellina-r1137960, accessed 26 April 2024.