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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Amalfi Coast from the Sea, with Maiori 1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Recto:
Amalfi Coast from the Sea, with Maiori 1819
D15833
Turner Bequest CLXXXV 52
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘278’ bottom right and ‘52’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXV 52’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch is one of a series of studies of the Amalfi coast which Turner drew from a boat on a journey between Salerno, Amalfi and Sorrento. The subject of this view is the town of Maiori, which lies in a bay to the east of Amalfi, at the opening of the Tramonti valley. The stretch of beach is flanked on either side by two sixteenth-century watch-towers which formed part of a defensive chain along this part of the coastline. Visible near the centre of the composition is the campanile of the Church of Santa Maria a Mare, whilst on the slopes above the town to the right is the ruined castle of San Nicola Thoro Peano. For further sketches of the Amalfi coast from the sea see folio 47 verso (D15824).

Nicola Moorby
October 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Amalfi Coast from the Sea, with Maiori 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-maiori-r1138300, accessed 28 March 2024.