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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Six Sketches of the Meuse Valley above Charleville 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Six Sketches of the Meuse Valley above Charleville’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Recto:
Six Sketches of the Meuse Valley above Charleville 1824
D19685
Turner Bequest CCXVI 68
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Corn’ top left; ‘Road [?in the] | [...] Road’ top left; ‘Wood top left towards centre; ‘Road’ bottom right (inverted); ‘[?M Vallee]’ bottom centre towards left (inverted)
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘68’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–68’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Cecilia Powell has identified these slight sketches as showing the Meuse Valley, taken from a vantage point above Charleville in the French Ardennes (see also Tate D19684; Turner Bequest CCXVI 67a). With the sketchbook orientated in accordance with the foliation, a view of Charleville is seen at top left, annotated with rather illegible inscriptions relating to the roads. Below this sketch is a view of a ‘wood[ed]’ valley and a diligence coach at right. The remaining views are profiles of Charleville and the surrounding landscape; these have all been drawn with the sketchbook turned upside down.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Six Sketches of the Meuse Valley above Charleville 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-six-sketches-of-the-meuse-valley-above-charleville-r1174473, accessed 24 April 2024.