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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of Givet and Fort Charlemont 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of Givet and Fort Charlemont’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Recto:
Sketches of Givet and Fort Charlemont 1824
D19667
Turner Bequest CCXVI 59
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘smith & [allnut] | 18[22]’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘59’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–59’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These rough sketches of Givet, the Fort Charlemont, and Tour Victoire are continued from the folio opposite (Tate D19666; Turner Bequest CCXVI 58a). At centre the spire of the Church of Saint-Hilaire can be seen, delineated in simple profile. After having been destroyed by the Marshal of Créquy in 1675, the church was reconstructed in 1682 by Louis XIV’s chief military engineer Vauban, who, at the time, was also in charge of re-designing the Fort Charlemont.1

Alice Rylance-Watson
March 2014

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‘Art et Culture’, Givet, accessed 2 December 2014, http://www.givet.fr/vivre/artculture.php

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketches of Givet and Fort Charlemont 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-sketches-of-givet-and-fort-charlemont-r1174455, accessed 16 July 2025.