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Rome from San Pietro in Montorio

Maker

(artist)
1775-1851

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1820 - 1821

Medium

watercolour with some added gum arabic, bodycolour, pen and brown ink with scraping on wove paper, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 28.8 cm
Width: 41.5 cm

Accession Number

D.2007.DS.53

Mode of Acquisition

HM Government (Acceptance in Lieu), allocation, 2007

Credit

Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Samuel Courtauld Trust, 2007.

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

On his return from his first trip to Italy, Turner produced eight views for his patron Walter Fawkes. In this one, Rome is seen from the church of San Pietro in Montorio on the Janiculum, a hill to the west of the city, with sweeping hazy views across the Trastevere neighbourhood and the Colosseum, to the Alban hills in the distance. Two peasant women in the foreground and a puppet show at the left animate the scene with hints of local character.

Provenance

commissioned by friend and patron of the artist, Walter Fawkes, Farnley Hall (1769-1825); by descent to Reverend Ayscough Fawkes, Farnley Hall (ca. 1806-1871); his estate sale, Christie's (London), 27 June 1890, lot 51; purchased there by Obach & Co. (London); possibly in Feldsberg (then part of Liechtenstein), 6 August 1920 (as per inscription); John Baskett Ltd (London); purchased there by Thomas Agnew & Sons (London), 1973; purchased there by Miss Dorothy Scharf, London (1942-2004); Scharf Bequest, accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Samuel Courtauld Trust, 2007

Exhibition History

Drawings Gallery Display - Pen to Brush: British Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/11/2021-28/02/2022

Drawings Gallery Display - Panorama, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 26/09/2015-10/01/2016

The Courtauld Collects - 20 Years of Acquisitions, Somerset House & London & England, 17/06/2010-19/09/2010 ...More

Paths to Fame - Turner's Watercolour Landscapes, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 30/10/2008-25/01/2009

Paths to Fame - Turner's Watercolour Landscapes, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, England, 16/07/2008-12/10/2008

101st annual exhibition of watercolours and drawings, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 21/01/1974-22/02/1974 ...Less

Literature

Lange, Oliver, 'JMW Turner: Rome, from San Pietro in Montorio' in 'The Artist', February 2009 - 56-57
pp. 56-57

Paths to Fame: Turner Watercolours from The Courtauld Gallery, Wordsworth Trust; Courtauld Gallery, 2008-2009
no. 16
ill.

Powell, Cecilia, Turner in the South: Rome, Naples, Florence, New Haven and London, 1987
pp. 105-06
fig.114 on p. 105 ...More

Finberg, Alexander Joseph, 'Turner Watercolours at Farnley Hall' in 'The Studio', 1915
p. 28, no. 195

Armstrong, Sir Walter, Turner, London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1902
no. 77
ill. ...Less

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: lower right, pen and red-brown ink: ROMA Pietro Montorio / JMWTurner .

Inscription: Verso (backing sheet): upper left edge, purple crayon: Rome from the Pincian Hill.

Inscription: Verso (backing sheet): upper left, graphite, circled: J2441

Inscription: Verso (backing sheet): centre, graphite, very large: Kupferstich / Samlung / Feldsberg [sic].

Inscription: Verso (backing sheet): lower left, graphite, first line crossed out: Kupfer[...] 15.) / 33.) Unbekannt (Signatur unleserlich.) / Rom vom Princian Hill aus? / Sur 6/VIII. 1920 aus Feldsberg 1221/10

Inscription: Verso (backing sheet), lower left, graphite, circled, erased and hard to read: [...] B835.

Inscription: Verso (backing sheet), lower left corner, graphite: 595/17.

Inscription: Verso (backing sheet), lower centre, graphite: ?.

Inscription: Verso (backing sheet): lower right corner, graphite: L.

Collector's mark: none.

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