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

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

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 80 Verso:
?Gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome 1819
D16303
Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 79 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 189 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Although the location of this sketch has not been conclusively identified, the details of the landscape containing a mixture of trees, buildings and an ornamental vase, and similarities to another series of sketches on folios 62–63 (D16267–D16270; Turner Bequest 61–62) suggests that the subject may be the gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome. The same vase also appears in the view on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 81 (D16304; Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 80). For a general discussion of the Borghese Gardens see folio 62 (D16267; Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 61).

Nicola Moorby
January 2009

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘?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-gardens-of-the-villa-borghese-rome-r1139815, accessed 16 April 2024.