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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839 > Givet, Mézières, Verdun, Metz, Luxemburg ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner River View with Wooden Bridge and Distant Towers 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘River View with Wooden Bridge and Distant Towers’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Verso:
River View with Wooden Bridge and Distant Towers 1839
D28290
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 68 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?at Treves]’, ‘[...]’ at top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view may depict Thionville, a French town on the Moselle located close to the border with Luxembourg. The twin towers in the distance recall the architecture of the Church of Saint-Maximin and the spire to the left maybe the bell-tower of the town’s sixteenth-century town hall. Thionville is represented elsewhere in this sketchbook (Tate D28225, D28236, D28237; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 20, 36a, 37) and in the earlier Rivers Meuse and Moselle sketchbook of 1824 (Tate D19710; Turner Bequest CCXVI 81).
Technical notes:
There is staining from the leather overlaps on the back outside cover at the top and bottom left and right of the page.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘River View with Wooden Bridge and Distant Towers 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-river-view-with-wooden-bridge-and-distant-towers-r1150567, accessed 26 September 2024.