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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839 > Givet, Mézières, Verdun, Metz, Luxemburg ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Overlapping Sketches of Luxembourg City 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Overlapping Sketches of Luxembourg City’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 62 Verso:
Overlapping Sketches of Luxembourg City 1839
D28278
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 62 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
Partial Pro Patria watermark
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘3’ top left, ‘2’ top right towards centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has used this page to record a number of sketches of Luxembourg, with some overlapping each other. Lighter pencil is employed to draw two cursory views: one of the Alzette valley and the fortified plateaux of the city and the other a small jotting of what appears to be ridge with fortifications, labelled with the number ‘3’. By contrast, a darker and blunter pencil line is used to roughly mark out what appear to be buildings. The handling is swift and abbreviated. Some of these drawings continue onto the folio opposite (Tate D28279; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 63).

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Overlapping Sketches of Luxembourg City 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-overlapping-sketches-of-luxembourg-city-r1150555, accessed 30 June 2024.