Joseph Mallord William Turner

Sketches of Givet and Fort Charlemont

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: 118 × 78 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D19666
Turner Bequest CCXVI 58 a

Catalogue entry

Swiftly wrought, these sketches show the frontier town of Givet dominated by the Fort Charlemont (they continue on the opposite folio Tate D19667; Turner Bequest CCXVI 59). The Pont de Meuse and Tour Victoire can be seen in the upper and lowermost sketches.

Further views of Givet and its fortress are found on Tate D19664–D19665, D19668–D19671; Turner Bequest 57a–58, 59a–61; for later drawings dating from 1839 see Tate D28170–D28185, D28187; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 2a–10, 11.

Alice Rylance-Watson
March 2014

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