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 View Upstream at Givet towards Saint-Hilaire and Fort Charlemont 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View Upstream at Givet towards Saint-Hilaire and Fort Charlemont’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Recto:
View Upstream at Givet towards Saint-Hilaire and Fort Charlemont 1839
D28185
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 10
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
Partial Pro Patria watermark
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘10’ bottom right
Stamped in black ink ‘CCLXXXVIII–10’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has depicted Givet looking upstream, recording the Church of Saint-Hilaire and local buildings with the fortress of Charlemont crowning the cliff. This drawing and other sketches of Givet in this book (Tate D28170–D28184, D28187; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 2a–9a, 11) formed the basis of a gouache and watercolour drawing on blue paper (private collection).1

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

1
Reproduced in Powell 1991, p.163 no.102.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘View Upstream at Givet towards Saint-Hilaire and Fort Charlemont 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-view-upstream-at-givet-towards-saint-hilaire-and-fort-r1150462, accessed 22 November 2024.