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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Sketch of Cliffs along the Posillipo Coastline 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Sketch of Cliffs along the Posillipo Coastline’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 73 Verso:
?Sketch of Cliffs along the Posillipo Coastline 1819
D16050
Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 71 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘[?Manabe Mos a | Meralla]’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The details of this sketch are too rough to be positively deciphered although they appear to depict cliffs above the sea, possibly part of the rocky Posillipo coastline west of Naples. The meaning of the inscriptions is also unidentified.

Nicola Moorby
August 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘?Sketch of Cliffs along the Posillipo Coastline 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-sketch-of-cliffs-along-the-posillipo-coastline-r1137974, accessed 21 September 2024.