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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of Fortifications; List of Places on the Upper Meuse 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of Fortifications; List of Places on the Upper Meuse’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Sketches of Fortifications; List of Places on the Upper Meuse 1824
D19555
Turner Bequest CCXVI 2 a
Pencil and pen and red and blue ink on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil and pen and red and blue ink by Turner (see main catalogue entry)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has written a list of places on the Upper Meuse. The list is transcribed below, with this cataloguer’s approximation of the real place names noted in brackets to the right of the transcription. The list is continued on the folio opposite (Tate D19556; Turner Bequest CCXVI 3).
‘?Thirriley’ (?Thierville-sur-Meuse)
‘Charny’ (Charny-sur-Meuse)
‘Montfaucon’ (Montfaucon d’Argonne)           ‘Boro’
‘Commeries’ (?Cumières-le-Mort-Homme)
‘Belincourt’ (?Béthincourt)
‘Forges’ (Forges-sur-Meuse)
‘Drelincourt’ (Gercourt-et-Drillancourt)
‘Da[...]oux’ (Dannevoux)
‘Ain[...]wille’ (Aincreville)
‘Doulan’ (Doulcon)
‘Ville Franche [...] Pro of Champaign’ (Villefranche) (Province of Champagne)
‘Beauclair’
‘Villippe – B’ (Wiseppe)
‘La Newville’ (Laneuville-sur-Meuse)
‘Beaumont City Ct of Argonne Cham’ (Beaumont-en-Argonne)
‘?Armoze’ (?Les-Petites-Armoises)
‘Beaucourt’
‘?Vilars’ (Maisoncelle-et-Villers)
‘Raucourt B’ (Raucourt-et-Flaba)
‘Remilly’ (Remilly-Allicourt)
At the lower register, Turner has drawn a cursory sketch of a fortification with two towers in the distance. With the sketchbook orientated horizontally, there are also two swiftly rendered profiles of towers and cupolas.

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketches of Fortifications; List of Places on the Upper Meuse 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sketches-of-fortifications-list-of-places-on-the-upper-meuse-r1174343, accessed 24 April 2024.