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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin Ariccia: View Looking up to the Church of Santa Maria c.1794-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Thomas Girtin 1775–1802
Folio 46 Recto:
Ariccia: View Looking up to the Church of Santa Maria c.1794–8
D36459
Turner Bequest CCCLXXIII 46
Pencil and grey and blue-grey wash on white wove paper, 221 x 189 mm mounted on white cartridge paper, 495 x 363 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed in pencil ‘46’ on mount, bottom right, descending vertically
Inscribed in a later hand in pencil ‘“Lerici” ? Cp. p39. | L’Ariccia (G. of Spezia)’ on mount, bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXXIII – 46’ on mount, bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Another view of the church is on folio 39 recto (D36452).
The work is mounted with the album page turned vertically.
Verso:
Blank (laid down); the inscription (probably by Thomas Girtin in pencil) noted by Finberg and transcribed as the work’s title, ‘Lerici’, is no longer apparent.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Ariccia: View Looking up to the Church of Santa Maria c.1794–8 by Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin’, catalogue entry, April 2012, 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-thomas-girtin-ariccia-view-looking-up-to-the-church-of-santa-r1140631, accessed 24 April 2024.