Joseph Mallord William Turner

Here Turner has made two small sketches of the Bock, a promontory located in the north-eastern corner of Luxembourg’s historical district. Its fortifications date back to 963 and have been developed, reinforced, destroyed, and rebuilt over centuries. This sketch and that on the previous folio (Tate D28228; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 32a) form the basis for a gouache, pen and ink and watercolour drawing on blue paper of the city taken from a southerly perspective (private collection).1