CIRCA 1809. SIZE 27” × 40".
Turner exhibited a drawing with this title at the Royal Academy, 1811, but it is uncertain whether it was this drawing or the one now in the Wallace Collection. The latter is signed and dated “J. M. W. Turner, R.A., 1809.”
INTERIOR OF ST. PETER’S, ROME.
SIGNED AND DATED “J. M. W. TURNER, 1820.” SIZE 11½” × 16½".
One of Turner’s first Italian drawings from his own sketches, the illustrations to Hakewill’s “Italy” having been made before Turner visited Italy, from camera obscura tracings made by Hakewill.
