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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant Views of Vesuvius and the Lattari Mountains, from the Road Outside the Walls of Pompeii 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant Views of Vesuvius and the Lattari Mountains, from the Road Outside the Walls of Pompeii’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 20 Recto:
Distant Views of Vesuvius and the Lattari Mountains, from the Road Outside the Walls of Pompeii 1819
D15774
Turner Bequest CLXXXV 20
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘morning mist’ right of centre sketch
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘278’ bottom right and ‘20’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXV 20’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three views drawn from the road which skirts the northern boundary of the walls of Pompeii. The uppermost sketch depicts the vista looking north towards Vesuvius whilst the two lower studies respectively represent the views looking east and south across the city ruins towards the Lattari Mountains. The bottom sketch incorporates the distinctive outline of Monte Faito and the Sorrentine peninsula with the island of Capri on the far right-hand side.

Nicola Moorby
September 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Distant Views of Vesuvius and the Lattari Mountains, from the Road Outside the Walls of Pompeii 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-views-of-vesuvius-and-the-lattari-mountains-from-the-r1138240, accessed 03 February 2025.