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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner St Peter's and Monte Soratte from the ?Villa Borghese, Rome 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Peter's and Monte Soratte from the ?Villa Borghese, Rome’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Recto:
St Peter’s and Monte Soratte from the ?Villa Borghese, Rome 1819
D16520
Turner Bequest CXCI 19
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘19’ bottom right [very faint]
Stamped in black ‘CXCI 19’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two sketches related to Rome. The upper vista depicts a distant view of St Peter’s, whilst Thomas Ashby identified the lower subject as a view of Mount Soratte (also known as Monte Soracte), a mountain ridge which stands in isolation amidst the countryside approximately twenty-five miles north of the city.1 Turner’s viewpoint may be one of the upper storeys of the Villa Borghese palace, see folio 20 (D16522).

Nicola Moorby
November 2010

1
Thomas Ashby, unpublished notes, Turner Bequest Archive, Tate.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘St Peter’s and Monte Soratte from the ?Villa Borghese, 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-st-peters-and-monte-soratte-from-the-villa-borghese-rome-r1138413, accessed 19 September 2024.