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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of a View of Castel dell'Ovo, Naples, from the Chiaia Waterfront 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of a View of Castel dell'Ovo, Naples, from the Chiaia Waterfront’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 42 Recto:
Part of a View of Castel dell’Ovo, Naples, from the Chiaia Waterfront 1819
D15636
Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 40 b
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 197 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘281’ bottom right and ‘40’ top right
Inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil ‘b’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXIV 40’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner made numerous sketches of the bustle of shipping and human activity which could be observed along the Neapolitan seafront. This sketch depicts part of a view looking east from the Largo della Vittoria on the long straight stretch of the Chiaia waterfront (near present-day Piazza della Vittoria). There are a large number of figures at the water’s edge, and the Sorrentine peninsula can be seen along the distant horizon. The composition continues on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, with the Castel dell’Ovo and the Pizzofalcone Hill, see folio 41 verso (D15635; Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 40a).

Nicola Moorby
May 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Part of a View of Castel dell’Ovo, Naples, from the Chiaia Waterfront 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-castel-dellovo-naples-from-the-chiaia-r1138098, accessed 18 September 2024.