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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of Givet, Looking up the Meuse from its Northern Outskirts on the East Bank 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of Givet, Looking up the Meuse from its Northern Outskirts on the East Bank’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Verso:
Two Sketches of Givet, Looking up the Meuse from its Northern Outskirts on the East Bank 1839
D28184
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 9 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Angemont’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The larger of these two sketches of Givet was drawn from a similar viewpoint to a gouache and watercolour drawing of the town on blue paper (private collection).1 It incorporates both the towers Victoire and Grégoire, the Church of Notre-Dame and the fortress of Charlemont. Turner has inscribed the word ‘Angemont’, presumably referring to the nearby Castle of Agimont, at rear, close to the gutter of the sketchbook. Above the principal drawing and depicting a similar viewpoint, is a further sketch of Givet. For other drawings of this town see Tate D28170–D28183, D28185, D28187; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 2a–9, 10, 11.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

1
Reproduced in Powell 1991, p.163 no.102.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Sketches of Givet, Looking up the Meuse from its Northern Outskirts on the East Bank 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-two-sketches-of-givet-looking-up-the-meuse-from-its-northern-r1150461, accessed 18 April 2024.