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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Ponte del Salvatore, Terracina 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Ponte del Salvatore, Terracina’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Recto:
?Ponte del Salvatore, Terracina 1819
D15589
Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 18
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 197 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘281’ bottom right and ‘18’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXIV 18’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Comparison with historic topographic prints suggests that this sketch of a single arched bridge beside a tower depicts the Ponte del Salvatore in Terracina.1 Visible in the distance is the heights of Monte Sant’Angelo with the distinctive promontory of the Pisco Montano, see folio 18 verso (D15590).

Nicola Moorby
April 2010

1
See for example http://www.terrapontina.it/territorio/antichestampe/Stampa18v.jpg.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘?Ponte del Salvatore, 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-ponte-del-salvatore-terracina-r1138051, accessed 23 September 2024.