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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Roman Aqueduct; Landscape 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Roman Aqueduct; Landscape’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 80 Recto:
The Roman Aqueduct; Landscape 1824
D19708
Turner Bequest CCXVI 80
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘80’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–80’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These rough and swiftly wrought sketches show the Gorze aqueduct (see Tate D19699–D19704, D19707; Turner Bequest CCXVI 75a–78, 79a) and a landscape in the Moselle valley near Metz.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Roman Aqueduct; Landscape 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-the-roman-aqueduct-landscape-r1174497, accessed 16 April 2024.