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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin At Terracina c.1794-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin, ‘At Terracina’ c.1794-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Thomas Girtin 1775–1802
Folio 19 Recto:
At Terracina c.1794–8
D36496
Turner Bequest CCCLXXIV 18
Pencil and grey and blue wash on white wove paper, 170 x 236 mm mounted on white cartridge paper, 368 x 480 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘18’ on mount, top right
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXXIV – 18’ on mount, bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is close to that of two drawings in John Robert Cozens’s (1752–1797) Beckford Sketchbook I, pp.30 and 31, titled ‘Near Terracina’ and ‘Part of Terracina’ and dated 5 July 1782 (Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, D1975.4.31, 1975.4.32).1
Another ‘Monro School’ view at Terracina is in the companion Monro album (Tate D36472; Turner Bequest CCCLXXIII 59). A Beaumont tracing after Cozens of the same scene is no.77(B) (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).
1
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.91, f.30, reproduced.
Verso:
Blank (laid down).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘At Terracina 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-at-terracina-r1140565, accessed 26 December 2024.