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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Bock, Luxembourg 1824

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 83 Recto:
The Bock, Luxembourg 1824
D19714
Turner Bequest CCXVI 83
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘83’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–83’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner pictures the city of Luxembourg, with the Bock plateau and fortress and the Church of St Michael beyond (see also Tate D19712; Turner Bequest CCXVI 82). For later sketches of Luxembourg see Tate D28229–D28231, D28266–D28288; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 33–34, 56a–67a. For the 1839 watercolour drawings see Tate D20220, D20244–D20249, D20258, D20264, D20270, D20272–D20273, D20284, D24742; Turner Bequest CCXX M, CCXXI K–N, CCXXII O, CCXXI P, CCXXI Y, CCXXII E, CCXXII K, CCXXII M, CCXXII N, CCXXII Y, CCLIX 177; N05240.
Technical notes:
There is a small tear at centre of outside edge of the page.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Bock, Luxembourg 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-the-bock-luxembourg-r1174503, accessed 24 November 2024.