A Distant View of Rome from the North

Marlow is said to have toured France and Italy on the advice of the Duchess of Northumberland. He reached Rome in February 1766, and judging from the large number of drawings, watercolours and sketches he made in Italy it is evident that he travelled in the Campagna around the city, and visited Venice, Florence, and Naples. Marlow probably returned to England at the end of 1766, and from 1767 regularly exhibited Italian and French subjects at the Society of Artists and Royal Academy in London.