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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The Walls of Pompeii from the Salerno Road, with Vesuvius in Distance 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?The Walls of Pompeii from the Salerno Road, with Vesuvius in Distance’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Verso:
?The Walls of Pompeii from the Salerno Road, with Vesuvius in Distance 1819
D15773
Turner Bequest CLXXXV 19 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘[?Salerno] Road’ bottom centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch is too rough to be conclusively identified but it appears to depict the city walls of Pompeii seen from the south with Vesuvius in the background. Turner’s inscription may indicate that his viewpoint is the nineteenth-century road between Naples and Salerno which ran along the southern perimeter of the site.

Nicola Moorby
September 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘?The Walls of Pompeii from the Salerno Road, with Vesuvius in Distance 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-the-walls-of-pompeii-from-the-salerno-road-with-vesuvius-in-r1138239, accessed 24 September 2024.