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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Pozzuoli, from the Sea 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Pozzuoli, from the Sea’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Verso:
?Pozzuoli, from the Sea 1819
D15931
Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 12 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject of this rough outline sketch is currently unidentified, although Finberg suggested that it depicts a view of Pozzuoli from the sea.1

Nicola Moorby
July 2010

1
Finberg 1909, p.551.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘?Pozzuoli, from the Sea 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-pozzuoli-from-the-sea-r1137855, accessed 25 December 2024.