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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscriptions by Turner of a list of Roman subjects 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscriptions by Turner of a list of Roman subjects’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 92 Verso:
Inscriptions by Turner of a list of Roman subjects 1819
D16326
Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 91 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 189 x 114 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil with list of Roman subjects (see main catalogue entry) and ‘90 | 13 | 270 | 90 | 1170’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At the back of this sketchbook Turner has made a list of the following Roman subjects:
Trajan Col [umn]
Antoninus ditto
Nero Forum
Tower of Capitol
Porta Ripa
Fountain of Egeria
Raffels [Raphael’s] House
Ditto
Villa Borghese
Colonna Pine
Consulta [Palazzo della Consulta]
French Academy [Villa Medici]
St John Lateran
Bath of Titus
Forum of Octavia
Aqua Acetosa
It is not know to what this list relates although nearly all of these buildings and monuments formed part of Turner’s exploration of the city in 1819, and many feature within this sketchbook.

Nicola Moorby
January 2009

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Inscriptions by Turner of a list of Roman subjects 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 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-inscriptions-by-turner-of-a-list-of-roman-subjects-r1139838, accessed 21 June 2025.