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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > Naples, Paestum and Rome Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Views amidst the Mountains ?near Nocera 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views amidst the Mountains ?near Nocera’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 92 Recto:
Views amidst the Mountains ?near Nocera 1819
D16086
Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 90
Pencil on white wove paper, 189 x 113 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘St [?Savvorrhia] | near Nocehera’ bottom right of top sketch, and ‘L [?Bejana]’ and ‘Porta’ bottom of centre sketch
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘90’ top left, ascending left-hand edge, and ‘245’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXVI 90’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The landscape views on this page are extremely rough and schematic suggesting that they were drawn on the road from a moving carriage. Turner’s inscriptions suggest that they represent views near Nocera dei Pagani (present-day Nocera Inferiore), a town amidst the Lattari mountains which formed part of the nineteenth-century route between Naples and Salerno. Turner passed through en route to Paestum, see folios 46 and 91 (D15998 and D16084; Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 44 and 89). For other sketches of Nocera see the Pompeii, Amalfi, Sorrento, Herculaneum sketchbook (Tate D15807; Turner Bequest CLXXXV 37).

Nicola Moorby
September 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Views amidst the Mountains ?near Nocera 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-views-amidst-the-mountains-near-nocera-r1138011, accessed 02 April 2026.