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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View of the Via Appia Approaching Terracina 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View of the Via Appia Approaching Terracina’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Verso:
View of the Via Appia Approaching Terracina 1819
D15586
Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 16 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 197 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s southward journey between Rome and Naples took him along a particularly straight section of the Via Appia known as the ‘La Fettuccia’ (‘The Ribbon’) which runs for thirty miles through the Pontine marshes between Tor Tre Ponti and Terracina. According to a contemporary account, the road was lined on both sides with poplars and elms and was bordered on the eastern side by the Monti Lipini (also known as the Volscian Mountains), see folio 15 (D15583). This sketch appears to depict a view of the road looking east, possibly towards the steep cliff known as Rupe di Leano, just north of Terracina.

Nicola Moorby
April 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘View of the Via Appia Approaching Terracina 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-view-of-the-via-appia-approaching-terracina-r1138048, accessed 20 April 2024.