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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner View through an Arched Window or Doorway, ?Rome c.1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 89 Verso:
View through an Arched Window or Doorway, ?Rome circa 1819
D16859
Turner Bequest CXCIII 88 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 94 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch is too rough to be conclusively identified but appears to depict a view seen through an arched window or doorway, probably somewhere in Rome.

Nicola Moorby
March 2011

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘View through an Arched Window or Doorway, ?Rome c.1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2011, 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-through-an-arched-window-or-doorway-rome-r1138634, accessed 28 March 2024.