Joseph Mallord William Turner

Towers

1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Towers’ 1839

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Givet, Mézières, Verdun, Metz, Luxemburg and Trèves Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 168 x 101 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D28220
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 27 a

Catalogue entry

Here Turner has made a small and very rough sketch of towers, adding an illegible inscription above the picture. The page has been torn diagonally in half.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

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