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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Bock and the Grünewald, Luxembourg, from the Hillside East of the Rham 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Bock and the Grünewald, Luxembourg, from the Hillside East of the Rham’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Verso:
The Bock and the Grünewald, Luxembourg, from the Hillside East of the Rham 1839
D28272
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 59 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
This rough and swiftly rendered sketch depicts the fortified plateaus of the Bock and Grünewald from a hillside viewpoint east of the Rham. For other sketches of Luxembourg in this book see Tate D28228–D28231, D28266, D28267–D28271, D28273–D28288; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 32a–34, 56a, 57–59, 60–67a. See also the earlier Rivers Meuse and Moselle sketchbook of 1824 (Tate D19712, D19714; Turner Bequest CCXVI 82, 83).

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Bock and the Grünewald, Luxembourg, from the Hillside East of the Rham 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-bock-and-the-grunewald-luxembourg-from-the-hillside-east-r1150549, accessed 30 June 2024.