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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Notes by James Hakewill on Rome; and an Inscription by Turner 1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Notes by James Hakewill on Rome; and an Inscription by Turner’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Recto:
Notes by James Hakewill on Rome; and an Inscription by Turner 1819
D13924
Turner Bequest CLXXI 35
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 88 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Drewette’ parallel with left-hand edge
Inscribed by James Hakewill in black ink (see main catalogue entry)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘35’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
Stamped in black ‘CLXXI 35’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This inscription by James Hakewill (1778–1843), represents advice to Turner on travelling in Italy in preparation for his first Italian tour of 1819 (see the introduction to the sketchbook). The text was first transcribed by Finberg,1 and is repeated here with minor variations:
Statue of Moses in the
Church of St. Peter Vincola
Inside of the Church of
S. Clementia
Church of St Martino
ai Monti new
Church & handsome
Statue of S. Cecilia in
the Church of the ^same^ name
Vatican & Capitol
museums
The text lists places of artistic interest in Rome including the Vatican and Capitoline museums which Turner explored in depth, see the Vatican Fragments sketchbook (Tate; Turner Bequest CLXXX). Hakewill’s list is continued from folio 35 verso (D13926) and other notes on Rome can be found on folios 13 verso–15 verso (D13882–D13886).

Nicola Moorby
March 2010

1
Finberg 1909, p.500.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Notes by James Hakewill on Rome; and an Inscription by Turner 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-rome-and-an-inscription-by-turner-r1138742, accessed 26 April 2024.