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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views of the Mountains East of Rome 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Views of the Mountains East of Rome’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Verso:
Two Views of the Mountains East of Rome 1819
D16521
Turner Bequest CXCI 19 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘R’ and ‘B’ within upper sketch, and ‘B’ and ‘G’ within lower sketch
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Thomas Ashby identified the subject of these two landscape sketches as the mountains east of Rome.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Thomas Ashby, unpublished notes, Turner Bequest Archive, Tate.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, ‘Two Views of the Mountains East 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-two-views-of-the-mountains-east-of-rome-r1138414, accessed 23 September 2024.