J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches, Including the ?Aurelian Walls, Rome 1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches, Including the ?Aurelian Walls, Rome’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 71 Recto:
Three Sketches, Including the ?Aurelian Walls, Rome 1819
D15431
Turner Bequest CLXXXII 70
Pencil on white wove paper, 189 x 113 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches. The subjects are currently unidentified although the central and lower view possibly depict sections of the Aurelian Walls in Rome. The study at the top appears to represent a palace or villa and Turner’s inscription suggests it has some connection to the Villa d’Este in Tivoli. A further sketch of the same building appears on folio 70 (D15429; Turner Bequest CLXXXII 69).

Nicola Moorby
April 2009

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Three Sketches, Including the ?Aurelian Walls, Rome 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-three-sketches-including-the-aurelian-walls-rome-r1132726, accessed 24 April 2024.