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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Coastline, ?from the Camaldoli Hill 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Coastline, ?from the Camaldoli Hill’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 75 Recto:
Distant View of Coastline, ?from the Camaldoli Hill 1819
D15875
Turner Bequest CLXXXV 73
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘278’ bottom right and ‘73’ top left
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXV 73’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The details of this sketch are too rough to be conclusively identified although it appears to depict a distant view of coastline with a natural or man-made structure in the foreground. It may relate to the adjacent sequence of studies from the Camaldoli Hill, see folios 72–74 verso and 75 verso–78 verso (D15869–D15873 and D15872–D15882; Turner Bequest CLXXXV 70–72a and 73a–76a).

Nicola Moorby
October 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Distant View of Coastline, ?from the Camaldoli Hill 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 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-distant-view-of-coastline-from-the-camaldoli-hill-r1138346, accessed 08 January 2025.