Joseph Mallord William Turner

Nine Sketches of the Aurelian Walls, Rome

1819

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Albano, Nemi, Rome Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 113 × 189 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D15389
Turner Bequest CLXXXII 49

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Cecilia Powell has identified the subject of these nine drawings as sections of the Aurelian Walls. Built 271–275 AD, these Roman walls, characterised by regular square towers, enclosed the ancient city of Rome and its seven hills and several surviving sections can still be seen today. Powell has also suggested that the rough nature of Turner’s sketches indicates that he might have been drawing from a moving vehicle.1

Nicola Moorby
May 2008

Powell 1984, p.472 note 11.

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sections of Ruins and the Aurelian Walls, Rome

Joseph Mallord William Turner View from Monte Testaccio, Rome, with the Aurelian Walls; and a Distant View of the Caelian Hill

Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Sketches of the Aurelian Walls, Rome, Including the Porta Maggiore

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches in Rome: Porta San Sebastiano and the Aurelian Walls; and the Via Appia Antica

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

Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches of the Banks of the Tiber, Rome, with the Aurelian Walls and Monte Testaccio

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Walls of Arezzo

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Via Pinciana, Rome, in between the Borghese Gardens and the Aurelian Walls

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Aurelian Walls along the Via Pinciana, from the Gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches in Rome; The Pyramid of Cestius with the Porta San Paolo and the Aurelian Walls; and a Distant View of St Peter’s

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