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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of a View of the Bay of Gaeta from Formia 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of a View of the Bay of Gaeta from Formia’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Recto:
Part of a View of the Bay of Gaeta from Formia 1819
D15607
Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 26
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 197 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘281’ bottom right and ‘26’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXIV 26’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains part of a panoramic view of the Bay of Gaeta on the Tyrrhenian coast, seen from Formia (formerly known as Mola di Gaeta). The bay sweeps round in a great curve towards the headland of Gaeta, visible on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 26 verso (D15606; Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 25a).

Nicola Moorby
April 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Part of a View of the Bay of Gaeta from Formia 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-part-of-a-view-of-the-bay-of-gaeta-from-formia-r1138069, accessed 23 April 2024.