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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner St Michael's Church and Fortifications on the Bock at Luxembourg 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Michael's Church and Fortifications on the Bock at Luxembourg’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 82 Recto:
St Michael’s Church and Fortifications on the Bock at Luxembourg 1824
D19712
Turner Bequest CCXVI 82
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘82’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–82’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner depicts the city of Luxembourg. Saint Michael’s Church, situated in the central Ville Haute quarter, is marked out by the Baroque spire at right, while the fortifications are those defending the Bock promontory. The conical tower to the left of the church belongs to the Abbey of Altmünster.1 For further sketches of the city in this book see Tate D18471–D18472, D19713–D19716; Turner Bequest CCX 90–90a, CCXVI 82a–84).

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

1
Thill, Muller and Koltz 1984, p.71 no.16.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘St Michael’s Church and Fortifications on the Bock at Luxembourg 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-st-michaels-church-and-fortifications-on-the-bock-at-r1174501, accessed 30 June 2024.