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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of the Ponte Felice; and a Study of the Gorge at Civita Castellana 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of the Ponte Felice; and a Study of the Gorge at Civita Castellana’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 74 Recto:
Distant View of the Ponte Felice; and a Study of the Gorge at Civita Castellana 1819
D14797
Turner Bequest CLXXVII 74
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 186 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘74’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXVII 74’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two separate sketches. On the left is a distant view of the Ponte Felice, a continuation of the panorama on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 73 verso (D14796). On the right, is a study of the gorge at Civita Castellana, see folios 75 verso–76 (D14800–1).

Nicola Moorby
November 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Distant View of the Ponte Felice; and a Study of the Gorge at Civita Castellana 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2008, 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-distant-view-of-the-ponte-felice-and-a-study-of-the-gorge-at-r1138960, accessed 25 April 2024.