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 Towers 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Towers’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Verso:
Towers 1839
D28220
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 27 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 168 x 101 mm
Inscribed by Turner ‘[...]’ top centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
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

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Towers 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-towers-r1150497, accessed 23 April 2024.