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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views from the Road to Camaldoli, Including Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples, and the Island of Capri 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Views from the Road to Camaldoli, Including Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples, and the Island of Capri’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 78 Verso:
Two Views from the Road to Camaldoli, Including Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples, and the Island of Capri 1819
D15882
Turner Bequest CLXXXV 76 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 189 x 113 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The two sketches on this page represent views taken from the road leading to the summit of the Camaldoli Hill. The upper vista depicts the Bay of Naples and Vesuvius whilst the lower shows the distant island of Capri framed by the steep sides of a gorge to the east of Camaldoli. For a more detailed discussion and further views from Camaldoli see folio 73 (D15871; Turner Bequest CLXXXV 71).

Nicola Moorby
October 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Two Views from the Road to Camaldoli, Including Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples, and the Island of Capri 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-two-views-from-the-road-to-camaldoli-including-vesuvius-and-r1138353, accessed 04 January 2025.