Joseph Mallord William Turner

Distant View of the Castle of Chokier on the Meuse, Looking Upstream; View near Chokier

1824

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Rivers Meuse and Moselle Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 78 × 118 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D19611
Turner Bequest CCXVI 30 a

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This sketchbook provides an enormous amount of valuable evidence relating to Turner's 1824 tour: his timetable and itinerary, an unbelievable number of tiny drawings and the preparatory sketches for his 1825 oil painting of Dieppe which prove that his first Meuse-Mosel tour took place in 1824 and not, as previously supposed, in 1826. The sketches on ff.30v and 31r show the Meuse at and near Chokier on the north bank between Liège and Huy, an imposing eighteenth-century castle with one remaining medieval tower and massive walls, which still stands on one of the precipitous rocks for which the Meuse is famous.

Gallery label, August 2004

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Catalogue entry

These picturesque views show the village and castle of Chokier at a distance. Turner has annotated the lowermost sketch with inscriptions marking where ‘Light’ falls, a wooded area, and a crop of ‘Corn’. For more drawings of Chokier and its chateau see Tate D19612–D19618, D19635–D19636, D20085; Turner Bequest CCXVI 31–34, 43–43a, CCXVII 1a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
March 2014

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