Watercolour on paper
Watercolours Related to Samuel Rogers’s Italy
Watercolours Related to Samuel Rogers’s Italy
Vignette watercolours  c.1826-1843
Vignette watercolours  c.1826-1843
Italy
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Rogers’s Italy 1830 Watercolours
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>
Galileos Villa Rogerss Italy
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Arcetri, Galileo’s Villa
architecture
astronomy
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
country house
education, science and learning
garden
garden structures
globe
Italy
moon
night
objects
places
residential
science, Galileo
scientific and measuring
society
telescope
times of the day
<p>Turner designed almost one hundred and fifty vignettes which were engraved and published in volumes of literature by his contemporaries, thereby bringing his art to a vast audience, many of whom would not have been familiar with the paintings he exhibited at the Royal Academy. Some of his most successful work in this form was made for two volumes of poetry by the now unfashionable Samuel Rogers; most of these designs remained in Turner own collection. His depiction of the sky makes an important contribution to the appeal of these delicate images which embrace both the romantic moonlight of Italy and the watery skies of England, as well as more emblematic effects.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique watercolour
16 November 2008 – 7 June 2009
2009-06-07
23 November 2008 – 22 February 2009
2009-02-22
2008-11-23
Palazzo dei Diamanti (Ferrara, Italy)
23 March 2009 – 7 June 2009
2009-06-07
2009-03-23
National Galleries of Scotland (Edinburgh, UK)
15 July 2009 – 25 October 2009
2009-10-25
2009-07-15
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum (Budapest, Hungary)
http://www.szepmuveszeti.hu/
2008-11-16
Turner and Italy
Loan-out
10 January 2015 – 11 March 2015
2015-03-11
10 January 2015 – 11 March 2015
2015-03-11
2015-01-10
National Trust: Petworth House (Petworth, UK)
2015-01-10
Mr Turner
Loan-out
18 October 2025 – 28 February 2026
2026-02-28
18 October 2025 – 28 February 2026
2026-02-28
2025-10-18
Laing Art Gallery (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/
2025-10-18
Miniature Worlds
Loan-out
Galileo’s Villa, for Rogers’s ‘Italy’
support: 241 × 307 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>Turner designed almost one hundred and fifty vignettes which were <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/engraving" title="Glossary definition for 'Engraving'"><span>engraved</span></a> and published in volumes of literature by his contemporaries, thereby bringing his art to a vast audience, many of whom would not have been familiar with the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> he exhibited at the Royal Academy. Some of his most successful work in this form was made for two volumes of poetry by the now unfashionable Samuel Rogers; most of these designs remained in Turner own collection. His depiction of the sky makes an important contribution to the appeal of these delicate images which embrace both the romantic moonlight of Italy and the watery skies of England, as well as more emblematic effects.</p>
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Arcetri, Galileo’s Villa architecture astronomy cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents country house education, science and learning garden garden structures globe Italy moon night objects places residential science, Galileo scientific and measuring society telescope times of the day
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