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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples, from the Camaldoli Hill 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples, from the Camaldoli Hill’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 78 Recto:
Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples, from the Camaldoli Hill 1819
D15881
Turner Bequest CLXXXV 76
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Road’ bottom left
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘278’ top left, inverted and ‘76’ bottom left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXV 76’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner made a number of sketches of the panoramic views to be seen from the summit of the Camaldoli Hill to the north-west of Naples. This study depicts the vista looking east from the sixteenth-century monastery across the Bay of Naples towards Vesuvius. 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, ‘Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples, from the Camaldoli Hill 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-vesuvius-and-the-bay-of-naples-from-the-camaldoli-hill-r1138352, accessed 24 April 2024.