Watercolour on paper
Collaborations with Thomas Girtin for Dr Monro, and Other Copies
Collaborations with Thomas Girtin for Dr Monro, and Other Copies
Monro School c.1794-8
Monro School c.1794-8
Italy
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collaborations between Turner and other artists
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>, <a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/thomas-girtin-211" aria-label="More by Thomas Girtin" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Thomas Girtin</a>
Tivoli Temple Sibyl
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
classical
cliff
colonnade
countries and continents
features
Italy
landscape
periods and styles
places
religious
religious
ruins
temple
Tivoli, Temple of the Sibyl / Vesta
water: inland
waterfall
wooded
<p>When Turner (together with Thomas Girtin) made this watercolour at the London home of Dr Thomas Monro in the 1790s, he had yet to visit Italy. Instead, it was based upon a first-hand study by another artist in Monro’s collection. The temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli was among the most celebrated motifs for British artists in Italy, and had been painted notably by Richard Wilson, whose work Turner deeply admired, and also copied. Turner visited Tivoli in the autumn of 1819 during his first Italian sojourn, when he made numerous sketches of the Temple and the surrounding countryside.</p><p><em>Gallery label, April 2007</em></p>
paper unique watercolour
6 April 2007 – 30 September 2007
2007-09-30
6 April 2007 – 30 September 2007
2007-09-30
2007-04-06
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2007-04-06
Visions of Italy
Collection based display
Tivoli: The Temple of the Sibyl
support: 230 × 296 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>When Turner (together with Thomas Girtin) made this watercolour at the London home of Dr Thomas Monro in the 1790s, he had yet to visit Italy. Instead, it was based upon a first-hand study by another artist in Monro’s collection. The temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli was among the most celebrated motifs for British artists in Italy, and had been painted notably by Richard Wilson, whose work Turner deeply admired, and also copied. Turner visited Tivoli in the autumn of 1819 during his first Italian sojourn, when he made numerous sketches of the Temple and the surrounding countryside.</p>

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