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Painting by J. M. W. Turner
The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire history painting by the British artist William Turner .[ 1] Carthage , capital of Ancient Carthage . Carthage had been the major rival of the Roman Empire until its defeat in the Punic Wars . Turner intended to draw comparisons with Britain's recent defeat of its own major rival the French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars .[ 2] seventeenth century artist Claude Lorrain .
It is a companion piece to the artist's 1815 work Dido building Carthage Dido .
The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy 's 1817 Summer Exhibition his only work on display that year. One review considered it "excelling in the higher qualities of art, mind and poetical conception, even Claude himself."[ 3] Tate Britain in Pimlico having been part of the Turner Bequest in 1856.[ 4]
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References
Bibliography 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 Press, 1999.
Hamilton, James. Turner - A Life . Sceptre, 1998.
Quinn, Josephine. In Search of the Phoenicians . Princeton University Press, 2019.
Paintings
Lambeth Palace 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 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 Jason Ships Bearing Up for Anchorage Bonneville, Savoy Calais Pier View on Clapham Common c. 1800 –1805)The Deluge The Shipwreck Windsor Castle from the Thames Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen Walton Bridges A Country Blacksmith 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 Hulks on the Tamar Teignmouth Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps Frosty Morning Dido and Aeneas Dido building Carthage Crossing the Brook The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire Raby Castle Dort or Dordrecht The Field of Waterloo Richmond Hill Entrance of the Meuse Rome, from the Vatican George IV at St Giles's, Edinburgh The Battle of Trafalgar The Bay of Baiae The Harbour of Dieppe Cologne Forum Romanum Mortlake Terrace Port Ruysdael The Chain Pier, Brighton Chichester Canal East Cowes Castle Regulus View of Orvieto Vision of Medea The Banks of the Loire The Loretto Necklace Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus The Evening Star Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence Pilate Washing his Hands Caligula's Palace and Bridge Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay Staffa, Fingal's Cave 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 Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight 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 Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino The Slave Ship Venice, the Bridge of Sighs Venice from the Giudecca Schloss Rosenau 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 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
