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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of Jugs, Figures and Hats;and Route Map to Arcueil 1821

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of Jugs, Figures and Hats;and Route Map to Arcueil’ 1821 (Inside back cover of sketchbook)
Inside back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover:
Sketches of Jugs, Figures and Hats;and Route Map to Arcueil 1821
D41261
Pencil on white wove paper, 123 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner, inverted at the bottom of the page; see transcription below
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At the top of the page are a quick sketch of two jugs, a figure in Normandy costume and another of the figure’s hat. Turner expressed great interest during this tour of northern France in recording signs of local costume and custom.
At the bottom of the page, drawn with the sketchbook inverted, is a list of places just to the south of Paris that constitute either a route or, in combination with a rough outline, a map. From Paris Turner took a short tip to Arcueil to see the impressive Roman aqueduct. This note was either made as an aid to making his way there, or to indicate the route of the watercourse into the city.1 There are sketches of Arcueil on folios 12, 12 verso and 13 verso (Tate D24522, D24523, D24525; Turner Bequest CCLVIII 12, 12a, 13a).
The inscription reads:
‘arcueil 3 d R
R Biéve [?]aquideut 000 M of [?]Mare
P.Montrouge
Montrouge Gentilly
Arcuel’

Thomas Ardill
February 2013

1
Warrell 1999, pp.23, 252 note 38.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Sketches of Jugs, Figures and Hats;and Route Map to Arcueil 1821 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sketches-of-jugs-figures-and-hatsand-route-map-to-arcueil-r1146353, accessed 20 September 2024.