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 Givet, Looking down the Meuse to Saint-Hilaire and the Bridge 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Givet, Looking down the Meuse to Saint-Hilaire and the Bridge’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Recto:
Givet, Looking down the Meuse to Saint-Hilaire and the Bridge 1839
D28181
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 8
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘8’ bottom right
Stamped in black ink ‘CCLXXXVIII–8’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The seventeenth-century Church of Saint-Hilaire is the focal point of this swiftly rendered sketch. Its elaborate clock spire and its apse are in view, with the stone arched bridge seen traversing the Meuse to the right. A detail of the bridge with overhanging trees suggested in loose scalloped line has been drawn close to the gutter of the sketchbook. This drawing and other sketches of Givet in this book (Tate D28170–D28180, D28182–D28185, D28187; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 2a–7a, 8a–10, 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, ‘Givet, Looking down the Meuse to Saint-Hilaire and the Bridge 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-givet-looking-down-the-meuse-to-saint-hilaire-and-the-bridge-r1150458, accessed 21 November 2024.