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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner An Aqueduct across a Valley 1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘An Aqueduct across a Valley’ 1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Recto:
An Aqueduct across a Valley 1808
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Turner Bequest CV 20
Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘20’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CV 20’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg’s title is retained, but the subject, presumably an aqueduct carrying a canal, is currently unidentified.

David Blayney Brown
June 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘An Aqueduct across a Valley 1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-an-aqueduct-across-a-valley-r1134527, accessed 25 November 2024.