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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Fort Charlemont, the Tour Victoire and Church of Saint-Hilaire, Givet, Looking Upstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fort Charlemont, the Tour Victoire and Church of Saint-Hilaire, Givet, Looking Upstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Verso:
Fort Charlemont, the Tour Victoire and Church of Saint-Hilaire, Givet, Looking Upstream 1839
D28174
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 4 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
Partial Pro Patria watermark
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has produced a rough and abbreviated line drawing of the profile of the Fort Charlemont atop Givet’s rocky heights, with the Tour Victoire at its foot. The Church of Saint-Hilaire is pictured too, Turner suggesting the spherical decorative element of its spire. The church is rendered more clearly in a sketch on folio 5 recto (Tate D28176; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 5 a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Fort Charlemont, the Tour Victoire and Church of Saint-Hilaire, Givet, Looking Upstream 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-fort-charlemont-the-tour-victoire-and-church-of-saint-r1150451, accessed 22 November 2024.