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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Vesuvius and Monte Somma, from ?Capodimonte, Naples 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Vesuvius and Monte Somma, from ?Capodimonte, Naples’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Recto:
Vesuvius and Monte Somma, from ?Capodimonte, Naples 1819
D15690
Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 66
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 197 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘281’ bottom right and ‘66’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXIV 66’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Vesuvius, with its gently smoking crater and adjacent peak of Monte Somma, dominates the majority of Turner’s sketches of Naples. The viewpoint for this drawing is not conclusively identified, however it may be the heights of Capodimonte to the north of the city.

Nicola Moorby
June 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Vesuvius and Monte Somma, from ?Capodimonte, Naples 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-vesuvius-and-monte-somma-from-capodimonte-naples-r1138150, accessed 20 September 2024.