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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Road leading into Nepi 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Road leading into Nepi’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 83 Verso:
The Road leading into Nepi 1819
D14816
Turner Bequest CLXXVII 83 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 186 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
After Civita Castellana, Turner’s route to Rome left the Via Flaminia and led him south-west to Nepi, a town approximately twenty-three miles north of the Eternal City. This sketch shows the road on the north side of Nepi (present-day Via 13 Settembre), leading up from the eighteenth-century aqueduct to enter the city near the Palazzo Comunale.

Nicola Moorby
November 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘The Road leading into Nepi 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-the-road-leading-into-nepi-r1138979, accessed 23 April 2024.