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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of a Distant View of Rome from the Via Cassia 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of a Distant View of Rome from the Via Cassia’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 91 Recto:
Part of a Distant View of Rome from the Via Cassia 1819
D14830
Turner Bequest CLXXVII 91
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 186 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘91’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CLXXVII 91’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough sketch represents part of the line of the horizon from a distant view of Rome. The drawing continues on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 90 verso (D14829).

Nicola Moorby
November 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Part of a Distant View of Rome from the Via Cassia 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-part-of-a-distant-view-of-rome-from-the-via-cassia-r1138993, accessed 19 September 2024.