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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ruined Aqueduct at Ponte degli Arci, near Tivoli 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ruined Aqueduct at Ponte degli Arci, near Tivoli’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 84 Verso:
Ruined Aqueduct at Ponte degli Arci, near Tivoli 1819
D15086
Turner Bequest CLXXIX 83 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 186 mm
Inscribed by the artist ‘5’ below sketch of aqueduct
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains rough sketches of the river valley to the south-east of Tivoli. The largest view depicts one of the ruined sections of Roman aqueduct which stand at Ponte degli Arci, on the Via Empolitana towards Castel Madama. Related studies can be seen on folios 85–85 verso (D15087–D15088). The smaller sketch in the bottom right-hand corner may represent the fourteenth-century fortress at Tivoli, the Rocca Pia.

Nicola Moorby
February 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Ruined Aqueduct at Ponte degli Arci, near Tivoli 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-ruined-aqueduct-at-ponte-degli-arci-near-tivoli-r1137721, accessed 27 April 2024.