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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views of Roussy-le-Bourg and Roussy-le-Village (between Thionville and Luxembourg) 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Views of Roussy-le-Bourg and Roussy-le-Village (between Thionville and Luxembourg)’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 37 Verso:
Two Views of Roussy-le-Bourg and Roussy-le-Village (between Thionville and Luxembourg) 1839
D28238
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 37 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 168 x 101 mm
Partial Pro Patria watermark
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Rouelburg’ | ‘Roussy’ at top towards right (inverted relative to foliation)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Across the upper and middle registers Turner has drawn two sketches of the towns of Roussy-le-Bourg and Roussy-le-Village, both orientated inversely relative to the foliation. Both towns are situated north of Thionville and Metz, within miles of the border with Luxembourg.
The sketch on the upper register continues onto the folio opposite (Tate D28239; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 38). Turner has annotated the drawings with ‘Rouelburg’ and ‘Roussy’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Views of Roussy-le-Bourg and Roussy-le-Village (between Thionville and Luxembourg) 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-two-views-of-roussy-le-bourg-and-roussy-le-village-between-r1150515, accessed 01 April 2026.