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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Aurelian Walls along the Via Pinciana, from the Gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome 1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Aurelian Walls along the Via Pinciana, from the Gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 81 Recto:
The Aurelian Walls along the Via Pinciana, from the Gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome 1819
D16304
Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 80
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 189 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXVIII 80’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The details of this landscape containing a mixture of trees, architectural features and an ornamental vase, and similarities to another series of sketches on folios 62–63 (D16267–D16270; Turner Bequest 61–62) indicates that the subject may be the gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome. The square towers in the background depict the line of the Aurelian walls on the Via Pinciana, as seen from the eastern perimeter of the gardens, see folio 43 (D16230; Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 42). The same vase also appears in the view on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 80 verso (D16303; Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 79a). For a general discussion of the Borghese Gardens see folio 62 (D16267; Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 61).
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Nicola Moorby
January 2009

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘The Aurelian Walls along the Via Pinciana, from the Gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome 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-the-aurelian-walls-along-the-via-pinciana-from-the-gardens-r1139816, accessed 13 June 2025.