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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Building in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome 1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Building in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 79 Verso:
Building in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome 1819
D16301
Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 78 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 189 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch depicts a building seen amidst the trees in the gardens of the Villa Borghese, probably either the Casino del Graziano on present-day Viale del Giardino Zoologico,1 or the Casa Cenci, see the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, folio 80 (D16302; Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 79). A small part of the sketch spills over onto this sheet. For other sketches of the Borghese Gardens and a general discussion see folio 62 (D16267; Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 61).

Nicola Moorby
January 2009

1
See http://en.villaborghese.it/la_villa/edifici__1/casino_del_graziano, accessed January 2009.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Building in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese, 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-building-in-the-gardens-of-the-villa-borghese-rome-r1139813, accessed 19 April 2024.