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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Castle of Hierges, South of Givet, Seen from the Road 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Castle of Hierges, South of Givet, Seen from the Road’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Recto:
The Castle of Hierges, South of Givet, Seen from the Road 1839
D28179
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 7
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
Partial Pro Patria watermark
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘7’ bottom right
Stamped in black ink ‘CCLXXXVIII–7’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The tower and part of a crumbling curtain wall of the castle at Hierges is depicted here. The view is taken from the town below, and is framed by tall trees and local buildings. Dating back to the ninth century, the castle was rebuilt in the sixteenth century in the Meuse Renaissance style with red brick and blue stone.1 Turner visited Hierges during his 1824 tour of the Meuse-Moselle region, making a drawing of it in the Rivers Meuse and Moselle sketchbook (Tate D19673; Turner Bequest CCXVI 62).

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

1
‘Les Grandes dates’, Château de Hierges,http://www.hierges.com/lhistoire/les-grandes-dates, accessed 21 May 2013.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Castle of Hierges, South of Givet, Seen from the Road 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-the-castle-of-hierges-south-of-givet-seen-from-the-road-r1150456, accessed 20 April 2024.