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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Views of Givet and Fort Charlemont, Looking Downstream 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views of Givet and Fort Charlemont, Looking Downstream’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Verso:
Views of Givet and Fort Charlemont, Looking Downstream 1824
D19670
Turner Bequest CCXVI 60 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Watermark ‘smith & [allnut] | 18[22]’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Washing G[...]on’ top right; ‘S[...]’ centre towards left.
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These slight and loosely rendered sketches show Givet and the Fort Charlemont at a distance, as Turner made his way by boat towards Vireux. Similar views are shown on the folio opposite: Tate D19671; Turner Bequest CCXVI 61.

Alice Rylance-Watson
March 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Views of Givet and Fort Charlemont, Looking Downstream 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-views-of-givet-and-fort-charlemont-looking-downstream-r1174458, accessed 25 April 2024.