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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of a View of the Bay of Baiae from the Punta dell'Epitaffio 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of a View of the Bay of Baiae from the Punta dell'Epitaffio’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 87 Recto:
Part of a View of the Bay of Baiae from the Punta dell’Epitaffio 1819
D15727
Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 85
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 197 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘281’ top left, inverted and ‘85’ bottom left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXIV 85’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner made several sketches of the picturesque Bay of Baiae, an ancient Roman bathing resort situated on the coast approximately ten miles west of Naples. This study is part of a panoramic view taken from near the Punta dell’Epitaffio, a rocky outcrop on the coast near Lake Lucrino depicted in the left-hand foreground. The composition continues on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 86 verso (D15726; Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 84a), but this side shows the vista looking east towards the island of Nisida and the Sorrentine peninsula beyond.
For another view of the Punta dell’Epitaffio see folio 87 verso (D15728; Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 85a).

Nicola Moorby
June 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Part of a View of the Bay of Baiae from the Punta dell’Epitaffio 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-part-of-a-view-of-the-bay-of-baiae-from-the-punta-r1138188, accessed 26 April 2024.