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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketch Map of the Meuse between Verdun and Mouzon; Other Notes and Sketches 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketch Map of the Meuse between Verdun and Mouzon; Other Notes and Sketches’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
First Flyleaf, Verso:
Sketch Map of the Meuse between Verdun and Mouzon; Other Notes and Sketches 1824
D40727
Pencil and pen and red and blue ink on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil and pen and red and blue ink by Turner with notes and place names (see main catalogue entry)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has sketched a map of the Meuse, tracing its trajectory between the north-eastern French towns of Verdun and Mouzon. From Verdun, Turner’s inscriptions read: ‘Belleville’ (Belleville-sur-Meuse);‘Grand’ (French for ‘large’); ‘Bras’ (Bras-sur-Meuse); ‘R[...]ville’ (?Regnéville-sur-Meuse); ‘?Chessay sur [...]’ (Charney-sur-Meuse); ‘Monfaucon’ (Montfaucon d’Argonne); ‘?Samrignieux’ (?Samogneux)’; ‘Forges’ (Forges-sur-Meuse); ‘Dan[...]’ (Dannevoux); ‘Sivory’ (Sivry-sur-Meuse); ‘Ville Franche[...]’ (Saulmory-et-Villefranche); ‘Liny’; ‘Dun’ (Dun-sur-Meuse); ‘Haramont’ (Vilosnes-Haraumont); ‘Doulon’; ‘Saussay’ (Sassy-sur-Meuse); ‘Lyon’ (Lion-devant-Dun); ‘Milly’ (Milly-sur-Bradon); ‘Mouzay’; ‘Vis[...]e’ (?Wiseppe); ‘Beaumont’ (Beaumont-en-Argonne); ‘Lanville’ (Laneuville-sur-Meuse); ‘Stenay’; ‘?Poiely’ (?Pouilly-sur-Meuse); ‘Mar’ (Martincourt-sur-Meuse); ‘Moulin’ (Moulins-Saint-Hubert); ‘Mouxon’. The sketch map continues on the folio opposite (Tate D19552; Turner Bequest CCXVI 1), showing the route of the river from Mouzon to Sedan.
To the side of the map is an assortment of notes and sketches that appear to describe the colour of garments and objects. When the book is upright the inscriptions read:
           ‘Colour            Blue
                                       Caps
                                  St E[...]
                                  Yellow
            all   [...]
            Red Cuff
            Yellow         Red
            Blue              Blue
                                  ?Offer
            Grey Clothes or C[...]
       Over the Belt [...]
       [...]
[?Salmon] colour f[...]
             S [...] 1
             Cor[...] 2

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketch Map of the Meuse between Verdun and Mouzon; Other Notes and Sketches 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 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-sketch-map-of-the-meuse-between-verdun-and-mouzon-other-r1174339, accessed 17 September 2025.