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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of the Inscription on the Base of the Column of Marcus Aurelius in Piazza Colonna, Rome 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of the Inscription on the Base of the Column of Marcus Aurelius in Piazza Colonna, Rome’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 90 Recto:
Part of the Inscription on the Base of the Column of Marcus Aurelius in Piazza Colonna, Rome 1819
D16637
Turner Bequest CXCI 90
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil (see main catalogue entry)
Stamped in black ‘CXCI 90’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The inscription on this page records the Latin lettering from the northern face of the base of the column of Marcus Aurelius in Piazza Colonna, Rome.1 Turner’s transcription reads:
TRIVMPAHLIS | ET SACRA NVNC SVM | CHRISTIVEREPI[...] | DISCIPVLVIM FERE | QVV PER CRVCIS | PRAEDIC ATIOMEN | DERORANIS | BARBARISQ | TRIVMPHIANVIT | [?F]ONTANI
The original text reads:
TRIVMPHALIS | ET SACRA NVNC SVM | CHRISTI VERE PIVM | DISCIPVLVM FERENS | QVI PER CRVCIS | PRAEDICATRIONEM | DE ROMANIS | BARBARISQ | TRIVMPHAVIT
For a general description of the Column of Marcus Aurelius and further sketches see folio 87 (D16632).

Nicola Moorby
February 2011

1
First identified by Powell 1984, p.431.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Part of the Inscription on the Base of the Column of Marcus Aurelius in Piazza Colonna, Rome 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2011, 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-part-of-the-inscription-on-the-base-of-the-column-of-marcus-r1138530, accessed 24 April 2024.