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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of Franchimont 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of Franchimont’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Verso:
Two Sketches of Franchimont 1839
D28099
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 30 a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 94 x 154 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Franchimont’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this roughly wrought sketch Turner has depicted part of the ruined walls of the medieval Franchimont Castle. With swift, energetic line the artist has suggested the dilapidation of the monument: the crumbling and collapsing masonry lending the ruin its jagged profile. Turner has inscribed ‘Franchimont’ at the bottom right of the folio.
For other views of Franchimont Castle in this sketchbook see Tate D28095–D28098, D28100–D280104; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 28–30, 31–33. For colour studies of it produced in gouache, pen and ink and watercolour on blue paper see Tate D20266, D20269, D20280, D20289, D24732; Turner Bequest CCXXII G, J, U, CCXXIII D, CCLIX 167.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Sketches of Franchimont 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-two-sketches-of-franchimont-r1150373, accessed 22 September 2024.