In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Crayon, graphite and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 231 × 369 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D16341
Turner Bequest CLXXXIX 15
Display caption
This panoramic view across the city
shows the dominant and unmistakable form of Michelangelo's dome of St Peter's. Turner has added details in red crayon, and highlights which he created by rubbing through to the white paper beneath the grey ground.
Gallery label, September 2004
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