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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Fortifications and the Pont du Château, Luxembourg 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fortifications and the Pont du Château, Luxembourg’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Fortifications and the Pont du Château, Luxembourg 1824
D18472
Turner Bequest CCX 90 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg titled this page of drawings ‘Views of a ruined abbey’: it actually holds views of the fortifications on the Bock ridge at Luxembourg and the eighteenth-century two-storey Pont du Château which connects two of the Bock’s cliffs (see also D20249, D28274, D28277, D28280–D28281; Turner Bequest CCXXI P, CCLXXXVIII 60a, 62, 63a–64).
This sheet, and its recto: Tate D18471; Turner Bequest CCX 90, was removed from the present sketchbook and bound into the Brighton and Arundel sketchbook (Turner Bequest CCX) at some point in the nineteenth or early twentieth century.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Fortifications and the Pont du Château, 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-fortifications-and-the-pont-du-chateau-luxembourg-r1174506, accessed 25 April 2024.