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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > Gandolfo to Naples Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Capua; and Part of a View of Lake Avernus, Looking towards Cape Misenum 1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Capua; and Part of a View of Lake Avernus, Looking towards Cape Misenum’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Verso:
Capua; and Part of a View of Lake Avernus, Looking towards Cape Misenum 1819
D15622
Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 33 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 197 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The nineteenth-century route from Rome to Naples passed directly through the town of Capua, and Turner made several sketches of the topography and architecture. This drawing depicts a view from present-day Via Porta Fluviale looking south along the eastern bank of the River Volturno, towards the Duomo (Cathedral) and, on the right hand-side, the dome of Chiesa dell’Annunziata. The composition spills over on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread with the Ponte Romano, see folio 35 (D15623; Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 34). Further studies of Capua can be found on folios 33–34 and 35 verso (D15619–D15621 and D15624; Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 32–33 and 34a).
Inverted in the top right-hand corner of the sheet is part of a view of Cape Misenum and Lake Avernus which continues on the opposite page, see folio 35 (D15623; Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 34).

Nicola Moorby
April 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Capua; and Part of a View of Lake Avernus, Looking towards Cape Misenum 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2010, 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-capua-and-part-of-a-view-of-lake-avernus-looking-towards-r1138084, accessed 17 December 2024.