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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Five Sketches of the Roman Aqueduct at Ars-sur-Moselle 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Five Sketches of the Roman Aqueduct at Ars-sur-Moselle’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 77 Verso:
Five Sketches of the Roman Aqueduct at Ars-sur-Moselle 1824
D19703
Turner Bequest CCXVI 77 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Ancy’ far left, centre towards bottom
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
On this page Turner studies Ars-sur-Moselle, a town celebrated for the remains of an ancient Roman aqueduct which ran from Gorze to Metz (see also Tate D19699–D19702, D19704, D19707; Turner Bequest CCXVI 75a–77, 78, 79a). The Church of Saint-Martin, constructed in 1816 on the site of an earlier church destroyed by fire, can be seen in the second view from the top at right.1

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

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‘Histoire’, Ville Ars-sur-Moselle, accessed 21 April 2014, http://www.ville-arssurmoselle.fr/HISTOIRE_a61.html

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Five Sketches of the Roman Aqueduct at Ars-sur-Moselle 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-five-sketches-of-the-roman-aqueduct-at-ars-sur-moselle-r1174492, accessed 25 April 2024.