J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of the Roman Aqueduct at Ars-sur-Moselle from Ancy 1824

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 75 Verso:
Two Sketches of the Roman Aqueduct at Ars-sur-Moselle from Ancy 1824
D19699
Turner Bequest CCXVI 75 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘[smith &] allnut | [18]22’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawing from a vantage point at Ancy-sur-Moselle, in these two sketches Turner pictures part of the Roman aqueduct which ran from the Boissons springs below Gorze to Metz.1 For further sketches of this aqueduct, see Tate D19700–D19704, D19707; Turner Bequest CCXVI 76–78, 79a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

1
James Bromwich, The Roman Remains of Northern and Eastern France: A Guidebook, London 2013, p.302.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Sketches of the Roman Aqueduct at Ars-sur-Moselle from Ancy 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-sketches-of-the-roman-aqueduct-at-ars-sur-moselle-from-r1174488, accessed 28 March 2024.