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Painting by J. M. W. Turner
Rome, From Mount Aventine Oil on canvas
Dimensions 92 cm × 125 cm (36 in × 49 in) Location Private collection
Rome, From Mount Aventine J. M. W. Turner , based on drawings made by him in the city in 1828.[1] Aventine Hill .
It was exhibited at the
Morning Post as "one of those amazing pictures by which Mr Turner dazzles the imagination and confounds all criticism: it is beyond praise".
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It had been commissioned from Turner by Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro of Novar and remained in his family collection until it was bought by the 5th Earl of Roseberry in 1878. It then remained in the Roseberry collection until 2014.[2] Sotheby's in London on 3 December 2014 to a telephone bidder for £30.3m including buyer's premium, having had an estimate of £15–20m.[3]
See also References
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Interior of a Romanesque Church c. 1795 –1800)Landscape with Windmill and Rainbow c. 1795 –1800)Diana and Callisto c. 1796 )Fishermen at Sea Interior of a Gothic Church c. 1797 )Limekiln at Coalbrookdale c. 1797 )Moonlight, a Study at Millbank Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus c. 1798 )Buttermere Lake, with Part of Cromackwater, Cumberland, a Shower Caernarvon Castle c. 1798 )Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland Shipping by a Breakwater Tivoli and the Roman Campagna c. 1798 )View of a Town c. 1798 )Dolbadarn Castle Self-Portrait c. 1799 )View in Wales: Mountain Scene with Village and Castle – Evening c. 1799 –1800)Welsh Mountain Landscape c. 1799 –1800)A Beech Wood with Gypsies round a Campfire c. 1800 )A Beech Wood with Gypsies Seated in the Distance c. 1800 )Landscape with Lake and Fallen Tree c. 1800 )View on Clapham Common c. 1800 –1805)The Shipwreck London from Greenwich Park The Fifth Plague of Egypt High Street, Oxford Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Dido building Carthage, or, Dort or Dordrecht: The Field of Waterloo England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday Rome, from the Vatican The Battle of Trafalgar Port Ruysdael Chichester Canal Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy The Fountain of Indolence The Golden Bough The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834 Rome, From Mount Aventine Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute c. 1835 )The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino Slave Ship Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth The Blue Rigi The Red Rigi Peace – Burial at Sea War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway Sunrise with Sea Monsters Norham Castle, Sunrise c. 1845 )Whalers c. 1845 )The Beacon Light Prints Museums Related
