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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Sketches of the Porta San Lorenzo, Rome 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Sketches of the Porta San Lorenzo, Rome’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 88 Recto:
Four Sketches of the Porta San Lorenzo, Rome 1819
D16317
Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 87
Pencil on white wove paper, 189 x 114 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXVIII 87’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains four studies of the Porta San Lorenzo, also known as the Porta Tiburtina, which stands on the eastern side of the city near present-day Termini railway station and the Church of San Lorenzo fuori le mura, see folio 87 verso (D16316; Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 86a). The sketch at the top of the page in portrait format shows the approach towards the gate and the Aurelian walls from the outer (eastern) side, whilst the other three sketches records the inner (western) side.1 For other sketches see the Albano, Nemi, Rome sketchbook (Tate D15416; Turner Bequest CLXXXII 62a)

Nicola Moorby
January 2009

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Compare Ettore Roesler Franz (1845–1907), Porta San Lorenzo, watercolour, 1884, from the series Roma Sparita (Museo di Roma), http://fr.museodiromaintrastevere.it, accessed January 2009.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Four Sketches of the Porta San Lorenzo, 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-four-sketches-of-the-porta-san-lorenzo-rome-r1139829, accessed 20 September 2024.