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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of a View of Naples from the Hill beneath Certosa di San Martino and Castel Sant'Elmo 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of a View of Naples from the Hill beneath Certosa di San Martino and Castel Sant'Elmo’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 55 Verso:
Part of a View of Naples from the Hill beneath Certosa di San Martino and Castel Sant’Elmo 1819
D15663
Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 53 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 197 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough pencil drawing forms part of a panoramic view of Naples seen from the slopes of the hill just beneath the Certosa (Charterhouse) of San Martino and Castel Sant’Elmo. The composition continues on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 56 (D15664; Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 54), but this side depicts the vista looking south and west towards the Capo di Posillipo (Cape of Posillipo) and the island of Capri. As Lindsay Stainton has identified, the view is very similar to that of a watercolour study in the Naples: Rome C. Studies sketchbook (Tate D16101; Turner Bequest CLXXXVII 13).1 There is also a further related prospect (Tate D16100; Turner Bequest CLXXXVII 12).

Nicola Moorby
May 2010

1
Briganti, Spinosa and Stainton 1990, p.134.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Part of a View of Naples from the Hill beneath Certosa di San Martino and Castel Sant’Elmo 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-naples-from-the-hill-beneath-certosa-di-r1138125, accessed 21 September 2024.