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 77 Recto:
Part of a View of Vesuvius from the Monastery at Camaldoli 1819
D15879
Turner Bequest CLXXXV 75
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘278’ top left, inverted and ‘75’ bottom left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXV 75’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch is part of a view of the hill of Camaldoli from the sixteenth-century Camaldolese monastery on the summit. The composition continues on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 76 verso (D15878; Turner Bequest CLXXXV 74a), but visible on this side is the distant Tyrrhenian coastline looking west towards Gaeta. Several trees disrupt the vista in the foreground and Turner has only partially sketched in the trunks.
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-r1138350, accessed 26 April 2024.