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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Meuse and Hills near Givet 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Meuse and Hills near Givet’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Verso:
The Meuse and Hills near Givet 1839
D28172
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 3 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With swift, abbreviated line Turner here represents the hills in the Meuse valley near Givet. The sketch is little more than a rough linear profile of the topography and has been left undeveloped.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Meuse and Hills near Givet 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-meuse-and-hills-near-givet-r1150449, accessed 22 November 2024.