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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Grand House; Various Landscapes, probably near Thon 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Grand House; Various Landscapes, probably near Thon’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Verso:
Grand House; Various Landscapes, probably near Thon 1824
D19640
Turner Bequest CCXVI 45 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Thon’ centre towards left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner pictures an imposing mansion with a tower or campanile constructed in the Mosan Renaissance architectural style. The building appears to give on to a stream, as a small double-arched bridge can be seen to its immediate left. At the foot of this sketch is a squared-off drawing of the landscape near the village of ‘Thon’, situated on the Meuse between Namur and Andenne. The remaining landscape sketches are extremely slight, drawn with the sketchbook turned upside down.

Alice Rylance-Watson
March 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Grand House; Various Landscapes, probably near Thon 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-grand-house-various-landscapes-probably-near-thon-r1174428, accessed 23 April 2024.