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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Monro School c.1794-8 > Album of Copies of Swiss and Italian ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin A Convent near Vietri c.1794-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin, ‘A Convent near Vietri’ c.1794-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Thomas Girtin 1775–1802
Folio 11 Recto:
A Convent near Vietri c.1794–8
D36488
Turner Bequest CCCLXXIV 11
Pencil and grey and blue-grey wash on white wove paper, 236 x 186 mm mounted on white cartridge paper, 480 x 368 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘11’ on mount, bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXXIV – 11’ on mount, bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The work is mounted with the album page turned vertically. It is after a drawing by John Robert Cozens (1752–1797), which he titled ‘The Convent of ––– at Vietri’ and dated ‘Sept. 24. 1782’; see Beckford Sketchbook III, p.13 (Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, D1975.6.13),1 and Beaumont tracing no.43 (after Cozens; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).
1
Bell and Girtin 1945, p.60 under no.272; Charles Nugent, British Watercolours in the Whitworth Art Gallery, the University of Manchester: A Summary Catalogue of Drawings and Watercolours by Artists Born before 1880, London and Manchester 2003, p.95, reproduced.
Verso:
Blank (laid down).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Convent near Vietri 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-a-convent-near-vietri-r1140557, accessed 26 December 2024.