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 > Spa, Dinant and Namur Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Marché de Theux and the Castle of Franchimont from the Path to the Castle 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Marché de Theux and the Castle of Franchimont from the Path to the Castle’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Recto:
Marché de Theux and the Castle of Franchimont from the Path to the Castle 1839
D28098
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 30
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 94 x 154 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Marchey’ bottom left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘350’ bottom right and ‘30’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXVII–30’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has produced a further sketch of Marché, the small village from which the ascent to the ruins of the medieval castle of Franchimont commences. He has inscribed the village name as ‘Marchey’ at the bottom left of the folio. The view is similar to that taken on the previous folios (Tate D28096–D28097; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 28a–29), but the present sketch was clearly taken from a higher viewpoint and excludes the picturesque Pont de Marché traversing the river Hoëgne.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Marché de Theux and the Castle of Franchimont from the Path to the Castle 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-marche-de-theux-and-the-castle-of-franchimont-from-the-path-r1150372, accessed 16 April 2024.