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Painting by J. M. W. Turner
Dido and Aeneas history painting by the British painter J.M.W. Turner that portrays a scene inspired by the Aeneid Roman poet Virgil . [ 1] city of Ancient Carthage with the lovers Dido and Aeneas in the bottom right.
Although possibly started as early as 1805, Turner displayed the work at the Royal Academy 's Summer Exhibition at Somerset House . [ 2] [ 3]
Today the painting is in the collection of the Tate Britain ,having been part of the Turner Bequest of 1856.[ 4]
Bailey, Anthony. J.M.W. Turner: Standing in the Sun . Tate Enterprises Ltd, 2013.
Costello, Leo. J.M.W. Turner and the Subject of History . Taylor and Francis, 2017.
Finley, Gerald. Angel in the Sun; Turner's Vision of History . McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999.
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 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 )Dutch Boats in a Gale Ships Bearing Up for Anchorage Calais Pier View on Clapham Common c. 1800 –1805)The Shipwreck Walton Bridges Sun Rising through Vapour Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour View of Richmond Hill and Bridge The Garreteer's Petition London from Greenwich Park Ploughing Up Turnips The Fifth Plague of Egypt High Street, Oxford Apollo and Python Saltash with the Water Ferry Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Frosty Morning Dido and Aeneas Dido building Carthage, or, Crossing the Brook The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire Dort or Dordrecht: The Field of Waterloo England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday Rome, from the Vatican The Battle of Trafalgar The Bay of Baiae The Harbour of Dieppe Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet Boat in the Evening Forum Romanum Mortlake Terrace Port Ruysdael Chichester Canal East Cowes Castle Regulus View of Orvieto Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay The Fountain of Indolence The Golden Bough Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore St Michael's Mount, Cornwall The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons Line Fishing, Off Hastings Rome, From Mount Aventine Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute c. 1835 )Juliet and her Nurse The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino Slave Ship Venice, the Bridge of Sighs Venice from the Giudecca 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 )Seascape: Folkestone c. 1845 )Whalers c. 1845 )Queen Mab's Cave The Departure of the Fleet The Beacon Light Prints Museums Related
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