Painted by JMW Turner
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Carthage | Dido building Carthage 1815 | |
| City of Luxembourg | "The English landscape painter William Turner captured the bold defence structures in expressive watercolours." | |
| Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape | Tamar Valley Mining District. "Crossing the Brook". Early Turner (1815) showing the Tamar Valley and Calstock in the style of French 17th C painter Claude but with signs of industrialisation in the valley. | |
| Dorset and East Devon Coast | ||
| Durham Castle and Cathedral | ||
| Gwynedd Castles | ||
| Lake District | "Turner painted a great number of scenes from the Lake District. These included Derwent Water as seen from Friar’s Crag, Coniston Water, Buttermere, and Ullswater." | |
| Loire Valley | "Vue Sud-Est de Beaugency c1826-30" | |
| Maritime Greenwich | (London 1809 etc) | |
| Nice | 43 pencil drawings dating from 1828, kept at the Tate Gallery (Nomination file, p. 204) | |
| Paris, Banks of the Seine | ||
| Pyramids (Memphis) | Giza - Fifth Plague of Egypt 1800 | |
| Rome | Rome from the Vatican 1820 | |
| Stonehenge | Turner made several drawings and paintings of Stonehenge | |
| Studley Royal Park | Several e.g "The Dormitory and Transept of Fountains Abbey - Evening" 1798 | |
| Upper Middle Rhine Valley | ||
| Venice and its Lagoon | S. Giorgio Maggiore, Looking east from the Giudecca 1819, View of a cross-canal near the Arsenal 1840 etc. | |
| Westminster | Burning of the House of Lords and Commons 1835 etc. |
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