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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of Torregaveta, between Cape Misenum and Cumae 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of Torregaveta, between Cape Misenum and Cumae’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 82 Verso:
Two Sketches of Torregaveta, between Cape Misenum and Cumae 1819
D15718
Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 80 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 197 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Sand’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This distinctive section of coastline can be found at Torregaveta, west of Baiae and the Cape of Misenum (Capo Miseno), south of Cumae. As a near-contemporaneous drawing by the Neapolitan artist Giacinto Gigante (1806–76) shows, the spur of headland was once topped by a medieval watch-tower, one of a large number of such defenses found along the Neapolitan and Amalfi coast.1 For further sketches see folios 83–84, 85 verso, 91 verso (D15719–D15721, D15724, and D15736; Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 81–82, 83a, and 89a).

Nicola Moorby
June 2010

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Giacinto Gigante, Veduta della spiaggia di Cuma da Torregaveta (Certosa di San Martino, Naples), reproduced at http://www.civita.it/servizio/sala_stampa/il_reale_sito_del_fusaro_tra_cielo_e_mare, accessed June 2010.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Two Sketches of Torregaveta, between Cape Misenum and Cumae 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-two-sketches-of-torregaveta-between-cape-misenum-and-cumae-r1138179, accessed 18 September 2024.