# View of Rome from Mount Aventine [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TURNER, Joseph Mallord William]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 93 x 126 cm ## Commentary This picture is based on a series of five detailed sketches made on consecutive pages in Turner's sketchbook during his second trip to Rome in 1828. This picture is based on a series of five detailed sketches made on consecutive pages in Turner’s sketchbook during his second trip to Rome in 1828. It was commissioned by one of his most important patrons, the artist's close friend and executor Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro of Novar \(1797-1864\). ## Related artworks - [Camposanto]() - [Dido Building Carthage or the Rise of the Carthaginian Empire]() - [Dutch Boats in a Gale]() - [Fishermen at Sea]() - [Frosty Morning]() - [Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh]() - [Landscape with a River and a Bay in the Background]() - [Morning amongst the Coniston Fells]() - [Norham Castle, Sunrise]() - [Peace - Burial at Sea]() - [Quillebeuf, at the Mouth of Seine]() - [Rain, Steam and Speed The Great Western Railway]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()