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 ?Mézières 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Mézières’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Verso:
?Mézières 1839
D28192
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 13 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
Partial Pro Patria watermark
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Cecilia Powell has suggested that these cursory sketches show Mézières.1 The largest drawing depicts a small building on the banks of a canal, a bridge visible at centre. A church can be seen on the horizon; trees at left and right are suggested in free scalloped line. At the uppermost register is a further sketch, hastily rendered, depicting an arched bridge. This is possibly a detail of the principal and largest drawing.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

1
Powell 1991, Appendix p.216.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘?Mézières 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-mezieres-r1150469, accessed 21 November 2024.