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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of a View of the Vestibolo Quadrato in the Vatican Museums 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of a View of the Vestibolo Quadrato in the Vatican Museums’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 36 Verso:
Part of a View of the Vestibolo Quadrato in the Vatican Museums 1819
D15173
Turner Bequest CLXXX 35 a
Pencil on paper 101 x 161 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains a slight continuation of a view in the Museo Pio-Clementino, from the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 37 (D15174; Turner Bequest CLXXX 36). The drawing depicts the top of a doorway within the Vestibolo Quadrato.

Nicola Moorby
November 2009

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Part of a View of the Vestibolo Quadrato in the Vatican Museums 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2009, 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-view-of-the-vestibolo-quadrato-in-the-vatican-r1139585, accessed 26 April 2024.