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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of a View of Vesuvius from the Monastery at Camaldoli 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of a View of Vesuvius from the Monastery at Camaldoli’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 76 Verso:
Part of a View of Vesuvius from the Monastery at Camaldoli 1819
D15878
Turner Bequest CLXXXV 74 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch is part of a view of the hill of Camaldoli with the surrounding landscape. The composition continues on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 77 (D15879; Turner Bequest CLXXXV 75) but visible on this side is the sixteenth-century monastery situated on the summit of the hill with Vesuvius in the background on the right. The curved stone bench in the left-hand foreground can still be seen in situ today.
For a more detailed discussion and further views from Camaldoli see folio 73 (D15871; Turner Bequest CLXXXV 71).

Nicola Moorby
October 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Part of a View of Vesuvius from the Monastery at Camaldoli 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-part-of-a-view-of-vesuvius-from-the-monastery-at-camaldoli-r1138349, accessed 25 April 2024.