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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Amalfi Coast from the Sea, with Raito and Vietri sul Mare 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Amalfi Coast from the Sea, with Raito and Vietri sul Mare’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 49 Verso:
Amalfi Coast from the Sea, with Raito and Vietri sul Mare 1819
D15828
Turner Bequest CLXXXV 49 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘joins 50 importantly’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner appears to have travelled by boat between Salerno, Amalfi and Sorrento, sketching the towns dotted along the rugged Amalfi coast from the sea. This sketch depicts a view of part of the coastline west of Salerno. On the right is the town of Vietri sul Mare, identifiable from the dome and campanile of the seventeenth-century Church of San Giovanni Battista, whilst on the heights above the shore to the left is Raito. The composition continues on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread with a view of Salerno, see folio 50 (D15829). Similar studies can be seen on folios 36, 48 verso–49 and 58 verso (D15805, D15827–D15827 and D15906).

Nicola Moorby
October 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Amalfi Coast from the Sea, with Raito and Vietri sul Mare 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 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-amalfi-coast-from-the-sea-with-raito-and-vietri-sul-mare-r1138295, accessed 19 September 2024.