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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of Town, possibly Sedan 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of Town, possibly Sedan’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Verso:
Sketches of Town, possibly Sedan 1824
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Turner Bequest CCXVI 68 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘C[?our]’ centre right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These slight sketches show a town and what appears to be a fortification built into the side of a valley’s cliff. The towers of the fortification bear some resemblance to the round artillery towers of the fortress at Sedan.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketches of Town, possibly Sedan 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-town-possibly-sedan-r1174474, accessed 26 October 2025.