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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Market Place at Thionville, Looking towards the Towers of Saint-Maximin Church and the Bell-Tower of the Sixteenth-Century Town Hall 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Market Place at Thionville, Looking towards the Towers of Saint-Maximin Church and the Bell-Tower of the Sixteenth-Century Town Hall’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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The Market Place at Thionville, Looking towards the Towers of Saint-Maximin Church and the Bell-Tower of the Sixteenth-Century Town Hall 1839
D28236
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 36 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Cafe’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner depicts the market square of Thionville, a French frontier town. The scene incorporates the bell-tower of the sixteenth-century town hall and the twin towers of the baroque Church of Saint-Maximin to the left. Turner has inscribed the bottom left of the drawing with ‘Cafe’.
For other views of Thionville in this sketchbook see Tate D28224, D28225, D28237; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 29a, 30, 37; see also the Rivers Meuse and Moselle sketchbook of 1824 (Tate D19710; Turner Bequest CCXVI 81).

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Market Place at Thionville, Looking towards the Towers of Saint-Maximin Church and the Bell-Tower of the Sixteenth-Century Town Hall 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-the-market-place-at-thionville-looking-towards-the-towers-of-r1150513, accessed 19 December 2024.