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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Ruins on the Palatine Hill, Rome 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Ruins on the Palatine Hill, Rome’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 73 Verso:
?Ruins on the Palatine Hill, Rome 1819
D16289
Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 72 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 189 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘[?...alos’] bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject of this sketch has not been conclusively identified although it may depict part of the ruins on the Palatine Hill in Rome. Part of the drawing spills over onto the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 74 (D16290; Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 73).

Nicola Moorby
January 2009

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘?Ruins on the Palatine Hill, Rome 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 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-ruins-on-the-palatine-hill-rome-r1139801, accessed 20 September 2024.