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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Givet and Fort Charlemont from the North (from the Road above the Village of Heer) 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Givet and Fort Charlemont from the North (from the Road above the Village of Heer)’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Verso:
Distant View of Givet and Fort Charlemont from the North (from the Road above the Village of Heer) 1839
D28170
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 2 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has produced a distant view of Givet, a French frontier town close to the Belgian border about fourteen miles south of Dinant. The ancient defensive fortress of Charlemont can be seen atop the Ardennes mountain range to the right. Givet is nestled at the foot of the range, marked out by the spire of the Church of Notre-Dame. This drawing and other sketches of Givet in this book (Tate D28171–D28185, D28187; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 3–10, 11) formed the basis of a gouache and watercolour drawing on blue paper (private collection).1 The village of Heer is represented in the foreground.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

1
Reproduced in Powell 1991, p.163 no.102.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant View of Givet and Fort Charlemont from the North (from the Road above the Village of Heer) 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-distant-view-of-givet-and-fort-charlemont-from-the-north-r1150447, accessed 25 April 2024.