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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches on the Coast of Posillipo, Including the ?Scuola di Virgilio 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches on the Coast of Posillipo, Including the ?Scuola di Virgilio’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 75 Recto:
Sketches on the Coast of Posillipo, Including the ?Scuola di Virgilio 1819
D16053
Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 73
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘73’ bottom left, inverted, and ‘245’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXVI 73’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Between the small village of Marechiaro and the island of Nisida the Posillipo coastline is characterised by grottos and inlets, as well as a number of ancient Roman ruins such as the Palazzo degli Spiriti (Palace of the Spirits), the Villa of Publius Vedius Pollo and the so-called Scuola di Virgilo (School of Virgil). This page appears to contains sketches of some of these shoreline caves and ruins.

Nicola Moorby
July 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Sketches on the Coast of Posillipo, Including the ?Scuola di Virgilio 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-sketches-on-the-coast-of-posillipo-including-the-scuola-di-r1137977, accessed 18 September 2024.