Graphite and chalk on paper
Grenoble Sketchbook
Grenoble Sketchbook
Switzerland 1802
Switzerland 1802
Grenoble Sketchbook
Switzerland
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
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Avenches Roman ColumnLe Cicognier
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
Avenches, Le Cicognier
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
column
countries and continents
landscape
monument
monuments
places
ruins
Switzerland
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
wooded
<p>Avenches, near Morat, stands on the site of the Roman city of Aventicum, capital of Helvetia. A single Roman column, part of a Roman temple of Apollo, was long known as 'Le Cicognier' from the generations of storks who built their nests on it. Turner drew it on his first Continental trip in 1802; Byron saw it some years later, and described it in the third canto of 'Childe Harold': 'By a lone wall a lonelier column rears/ A grey and grief-worn aspect of old days'.</p><p><em>Gallery label, May 1992</em></p>
paper unique graphite chalk
Avenches: the Roman Column,‘Le Cicognier’
support: 210 × 284 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>Avenches, near Morat, stands on the site of the Roman city of Aventicum, capital of Helvetia. A single Roman column, part of a Roman temple of Apollo, was long known as 'Le Cicognier' from the generations of storks who built their nests on it. Turner drew it on his first Continental trip in 1802; Byron saw it some years later, and described it in the third canto of 'Childe Harold': 'By a lone wall a lonelier column rears/ A grey and grief-worn aspect of old days'.</p>
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architecture Avenches, Le Cicognier cities, towns, villages (non-UK) column countries and continents landscape monument monuments places ruins Switzerland townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features wooded
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