The Fall of the River Velino, near Terni, Italy, after John Robert Cozens

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Joseph Mallord William Turner , English, 1775-1851

after John Robert Cozens , English, 1752-1797

Title

Date1794/1797

MediumGraphite with blue and grey washes on cream wove paper

Dimensions

24 x 37.3 cm

Credit LineBequeathed, Henry Vaughan, 1900

Object numberNGI.2405

DescriptionTurner probably copied this drawing from a sketch by John Robert Cozens (1752-97). In 1782 Cozens travelled through Italy with his patron William Beckford. He produced hundreds of landscape sketches on this tour, using a limited palette of greys and pale blues. Cozens' sketchbooks, now in the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, include a similar view of the waterfall on the Velino river in Umbria.

Exhibition HistoryTurner in January | Ireland's Vaughan Bequest, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 01 January 2025 - 31 January 2025