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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of the Gulf of Naples, Including Two Seen from the Ascent of Vesuvius 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of the Gulf of Naples, Including Two Seen from the Ascent of Vesuvius’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Recto:
Sketches of the Gulf of Naples, Including Two Seen from the Ascent of Vesuvius 1819
D15646
Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 45
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 197 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘281’ bottom right and ‘45’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXIV 45’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The bottom right-hand corner of this page contains an unidentified drawing which appears to include buildings and the entrance to a cave within a hilly landscape. Inverted on the sheet are two further rough sketches representing views seen from the ascent up Vesuvius, see folio 46 verso (D15645; Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 44a). The opportunities for the artist to use his sketchbook would have been limited by the difficult and demanding nature of the expedition, and therefore the visual records he was able to make were necessarily swift and schematic.

Nicola Moorby
May 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Sketches of the Gulf of Naples, Including Two Seen from the Ascent of Vesuvius 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-sketches-of-the-gulf-of-naples-including-two-seen-from-the-r1138108, accessed 20 September 2024.