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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Luxembourg 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Luxembourg’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 85 Recto:
Luxembourg 1824
D19716
Turner Bequest CCXVI 84
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘84’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–84’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These two rough sketches of Luxembourg depict the fortifications on the Bock plateau and the Alzette valley below. For further sketches of the city in this book see Tate D18471–D18472, D19713–D19715; Turner Bequest CCX 90–90a, CCXVI 82a–83a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘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-luxembourg-r1174507, accessed 30 June 2024.