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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of Lake Agnano and the Hill of Camaldoli 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of Lake Agnano and the Hill of Camaldoli’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 76 Verso:
Sketches of Lake Agnano and the Hill of Camaldoli 1819
D15706
Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 74 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 197 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘wtr’ centre of sketch and ‘Porta Ag’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The sketches on this page appear to depict views of Lake Agnano, a former crater lake in the Campi Flegrei (Phlegraean or Burning Fields) with the hill of Camaldoli beyond. The lake was drained in 1870 but was famous during Turner’s day as the site of the Grotto del Cane (Grotto of the Dog). The vista in the left-hand corner continues on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 77 (D15707; Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 75). For further views of Lake Agnano see folios 75–75 verso (D15703–D15704; Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 73–73a).

Nicola Moorby
June 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Sketches of Lake Agnano and the Hill of Camaldoli 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-sketches-of-lake-agnano-and-the-hill-of-camaldoli-r1138167, accessed 25 April 2024.