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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?View of Rome 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?View of Rome’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Verso:
?View of Rome 1819
D16517
Turner Bequest CXCI 17 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject of this sketch is too rough to be conclusively identified although it may represent a general view of Rome. Turner’s viewpoint may be one of the upper storeys of the Villa Borghese palace, see folio 20 (D16522).

Nicola Moorby
November 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘?View of Rome 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 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-view-of-rome-r1138410, accessed 19 April 2024.