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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View through Arches, Rome 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View through Arches, Rome’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Verso:
View through Arches, Rome 1819
D16205
Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 26 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 189 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of the city through a loggia with arched openings and a stone balustrade is not conclusively identified. It may however, represent the Vatican loggia, as depicted by the artist in his oil painting, Rome, from the Vatican exhibited 1820 (Tate, N00503).1

Nicola Moorby
September 2008

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, no.228.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘View through Arches, Rome 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-view-through-arches-rome-r1139716, accessed 24 April 2024.