Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, Britishafter John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797, British
Title:
Tivoli with the Temple of the Sybil and the Cascades
Date:
ca. 1794–97
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, graphite, and scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 21 5/8 inches (41.9 x 54.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Watermark: Whatman
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.356
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
architectural subject | geology | science | temple | hills | waterfall | trees | ruins | cascades | landscape | Grand Tour
Associated Places:
Europe | Italy | Lazio | Roma | Tivoli | Temple of the Sybil
Currently On View:
On view
Exhibition History:
J.M.W. Turner: Romance & Reality (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-03-29 - 2025-07-27)Classic Ground - British Artists and the Landscape of Italy, 1740-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-07-29 - 1981-09-20)The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-09-17 - 1980-11-16)
Publications:
Duncan Bull, Classic ground : British artists and the landscape of Italy, 1740-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 7, 65, no. 103, ND1354.4 B85 (YCBA)Gabriele Crepaldi, Turner, Prestel, Munich ; London, 2011, pp. 32-35, NJ18.T85 C75 2011 (YCBA)Douglas Fordham, Aquatint Worlds : Travel, Print, and Empire 1770-1820, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven and London, 2019, p. 52, fig. 35, NE2230 .F674 2019 (LC) OversizeAndrew Wilton, The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, p. 62, no. 177, pl. 61, NJ18 C83 W55 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
These watercolors are copies of works by John Robert Cozens, perhaps the most accomplished of the previous generation of landscape watercolorists, and another unknown artist. They are collaborative productions, created under the supervision of Dr. Thomas Monro, who owned the originals. Seeking to make use of the particular talents of the artists he employed, Monro asked Turner’s contemporary Thomas Girtin to draw the outlines and Turner himself to add definition and tone through elaborate watercolor washes. These examples clearly show Cozens’s influence in their increasing use of carefully graduated color to give more richness and subtlety of effect to the landscapes depicted. Gallery label for J. M. W. Turner: Romance and Reality (Yale Center for British Art, March - 29, 2025 - July 27, 2025)