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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Luxembourg 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Luxembourg’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 81 Verso:
?Luxembourg 1824
D19711
Turner Bequest CCXVI 81 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough sketch of a distant town is thought to show Luxembourg.1 If this is correct, Turner is drawing from a vantage point on the plateau Bourbon. Various cursorily rendered details are sketched at the outer edge of the page: a view with an arched bridge, the profile of towers and spires and a hilly landscape.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

1
Thill, Muller and Koltz 1984, pp.41 no.1, 43 no.2; Koltz and Muller 1995, p.18 no.1.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘?Luxembourg 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-luxembourg-r1174500, accessed 26 April 2024.