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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > St Peter's Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The River Tiber, Rome, near the Villa Farnesina with St Peter's in the Distance 1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The River Tiber, Rome, near the Villa Farnesina with St Peter's in the Distance’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 31 Recto:
The River Tiber, Rome, near the Villa Farnesina with St Peter’s in the Distance 1819
D16211
Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 30
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 189 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXVIII 30’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner made a large number of drawings with the River Tiber as the central focus. This sketch depicts the view looking upstream with St Peter’s in the distance and the trees and buildings crowning the Janiculum Hill on the left. The river is indicated only as a blank space in the foreground. The artist’s viewpoint appears to be from the Ponte Sisto with the Villa Farnesina on the left bank. The sketch spills over slightly onto the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 30 verso (D16210; Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 29a).
Verso:
Blank

Nicola Moorby
September 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘The River Tiber, Rome, near the Villa Farnesina with St Peter’s in the Distance 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-the-river-tiber-rome-near-the-villa-farnesina-with-st-peters-r1139722, accessed 25 April 2024.