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Painting by J. M. W. Turner
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 Royal Academy in 1836, where it was described by the Morning Post [citation needed
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]
Paintings
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 )Calais Pier 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 Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore 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
