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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketch Map of the Meuse between Mouzon and Sedan; List of Distances between Northern French and Belgian Towns 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketch Map of the Meuse between Mouzon and Sedan; List of Distances between Northern French and Belgian Towns’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Sketch Map of the Meuse between Mouzon and Sedan; List of Distances between Northern French and Belgian Towns 1824
D19552
Turner Bequest CCXVI 1
Pencil and pen and red ink on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil and pen and red ink by Turner (see main catalogue entry)
Signed and inscribed in black ink by Henry Scott Trimmer ‘No 242 | Contains 270 | Leaves Pencil | Sketches on both sides | H.S. Trimmer’ and Charles Turner (bottom right, in accordance with foliation)
Signed in pencil by John Prescott Knight ‘J.P.K.’ and Charles Locke Eastlake ‘C.L.E.’ (bottom right, in accordance with foliation)
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘1’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–1’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The sketch map of the Meuse between Mouzon and Sedan is continued here from the front flyleaf opposite (Tate D40727). From Mouzon, the towns listed include: ‘Villars’ (Villers-devant-Mouzon); ‘Raucourt’ (?Raucourt-et-Flaba); ‘Amblemont’ (Amblimont); ‘Romilly’ (Remilly-Allicourt); ‘Douzy’; ‘La Zeille’ (Bazeilles).
Turner has also inscribed a list of relative distances between towns on the Meuse which lie close to the border between northern France and Belgium. The list reads:
‘Verdun to Sedan                  75 miles.
Sedan to Mezieres                 26 miles.
Mez. to Charleville                 5
Ch. to Givet                           67
Givet to Dinant                     16
Verdun to M.                       101
V. to Charleville                 106
V. to Givet                           173
V. to Dinant                         189
Sedan to D.                          114
2½ German miles equal to 10 English.’1

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2014

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A German geographic mile (geographische Meile) is an obsolete unit of measurement in Germany. One German mile is defined as 7,420.54 metres (4.6 miles)

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketch Map of the Meuse between Mouzon and Sedan; List of Distances between Northern French and Belgian Towns 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sketch-map-of-the-meuse-between-mouzon-and-sedan-list-of-r1174340, accessed 21 November 2024.