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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Notes by James Hakewill on Travelling in Italy 1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Notes by James Hakewill on Travelling in Italy’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Recto:
Notes by James Hakewill on Travelling in Italy 1819
D13887
Turner Bequest CLXXI 16
Black ink on white wove paper, 88 x 114 mm
Inscribed by James Hakewill (see main catalogue entry)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘16’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXI 16’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains advice to Turner on travelling in Italy in preparation for the artist’s first tour of the country in 1819. The author of the inscription is James Hakewill (1778–1843), with whom Turner collaborated on the engraved print project, Picturesque Tour of Italy, published 1820 (see the introduction to the sketchbook). The text was first transcribed by Finberg,1 and is repeated here with minor variations:
good map of the environs of | Rome – | In going to Naples, stop for a | day at Mola di Gaeta and | go to Gaeta for the picturesque | buildings. The Inn at Mola | di Gaeta is sufficiently good.
Hakewill’s comments lead on from folio 15 (D13885) and continue on folio 17 (D13889). The suggestions are based upon his travels to Italy in 1816–17 and a view of Mola di Gaeta can be found amidst his drawings from the time (British School at Rome Library).2 For Turner’s sketches meanwhile see the Gandolfo to Naples sketchbook (Tate D15609; Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 27) and the Naples, Paestum, Rome sketchbook (Tate D16035; Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 64).

Nicola Moorby
March 2010

1
Finberg 1909, p.497.
2
Tony Cubberley and Luke Herrmann, Twilight of the Grand Tour: A Catalogue of the drawings by James Hakewill in the British School at Rome Library, Rome 1992, no.5.57, p.289.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Notes by James Hakewill on Travelling in Italy 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-notes-by-james-hakewill-on-travelling-in-italy-r1138705, accessed 20 September 2024.