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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839 > Givet, Mézières, Verdun, Metz, Luxemburg ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings at ?Mézières; Landscape with Tower 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings at ?Mézières; Landscape with Tower’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Verso:
Buildings at ?Mézières; Landscape with Tower 1839
D28178
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 6 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There are two separate drawings on this folio: the sketch at the upper register is a cursory view of buildings and a bridge, possibly showing Mézières (now Charleville-Mézières), a city south of Givet in the Ardennes region of France.1 The other drawing is rendered in much lighter, tentative pencil and depicts a landscape with a tower.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

1
Powell 1991, Appendix p.216.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Buildings at ?Mézières; Landscape with Tower 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-buildings-at-mezieres-landscape-with-tower-r1150455, accessed 12 May 2024.