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 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Overlapping Sketches of Luxembourg’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 63 Recto:
Overlapping Sketches of Luxembourg 1839
D28279
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 63
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘63’ bottom right
Stamped in black ink ‘CCLXXXVIII–63’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has drawn over light pencil sketches of fortifications at Luxembourg (possibly the castle on the Rocher du Bock) with an array of almost indecipherable markings in darker, blunt pencil. The handling is abbreviated, angular, jagged and in some parts comprised of rather haphazard repeated forms such as curled, coiling or zigzagged lines.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Overlapping Sketches of Luxembourg 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-r1150556, accessed 17 July 2024.