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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Monaco, from the North-East 1828

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Monaco, from the North-East’ 1828
Folio 24 Verso:
Distant View of Monaco, from the North-East 1828
D21180
Turner Bequest CCXXXI 24a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 174 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Mono’ at centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch, with the page turned horizontally, represents a distant view of Monaco seen from the north-east.1 According to the geographer and Turner researcher Roland Courtot, Turner’s viewpoint was from the seafront at Monte Carlo, looking south towards the Rocher de Monaco surmounted by the Prince’s Palace.2 The distinctive high promontory of the Tȇte de Chien can be seen on the far right-hand side.
For a detailed study of the Prince’s Palace, see folio 23 verso (D21178).

Nicola Moorby
March 2017

Revised by Hannah Kaspar
November 2024

1
Guilllaud, Alfrey, Wilton and others 1981, p.286.
2
Roland Courtot, ‘Les Carnets de William Turner: Recherches d’identification et de localisation des dessins’, unpublished research notes, Université de Provence à Aix, April 2008, p.5, as ‘Monaco’ (shared with former Tate cataloguer Nicola Moorby in email correspondence at that date).

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Distant View of Monaco, from the North-East 1828’, catalogue entry, March 2017, revised by Hannah Kaspar, November 2024, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2025, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/distant-view-of-monaco-from-the-north-east-r1209858, accessed 20 April 2025.