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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Sketches of the Roman Aqueduct at Jouy-aux-Arches 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Sketches of the Roman Aqueduct at Jouy-aux-Arches’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 76 Verso:
Four Sketches of the Roman Aqueduct at Jouy-aux-Arches 1824
D19701
Turner Bequest CCXVI 76 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Road’ far right centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In four swiftly rendered views, Turner pictures the remains of the Gorze aqueduct at Jouy-aux-Arches. The ancient Roman structure channelled water from springs near Gorze to Divodurum, later Metz. See also Tate D19699–D19700, D19702–D19704, D19707; Turner Bequest CCXVI 75a–76, 77–78, 79a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Four Sketches of the Roman Aqueduct at Jouy-aux-Arches 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-four-sketches-of-the-roman-aqueduct-at-jouy-aux-arches-r1174490, accessed 19 September 2024.