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 > Givet, Mézières, Verdun, Metz, Luxemburg ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Givet, Looking up the Meuse to Fort Charlemont and the Tour Victoire 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Givet, Looking up the Meuse to Fort Charlemont and the Tour Victoire’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Verso:
Givet, Looking up the Meuse to Fort Charlemont and the Tour Victoire 1839
D28180
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 7 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
Partial Pro Patria watermark
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Commanding the town of Givet beneath it, the formidable fortress of Charlemont is pictured here, rising from the crags of a vertiginous promontory. Givet appears diminutive in comparison. At far right, the Tour Victoire can be seen on the banks of the Meuse. There is also small sketch of a gradient and building at the top left. This drawing and other sketches of Givet in this book (Tate D28170–D28179, D28181–D28185, D28187; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 2a–7, 8–10, 11) formed the basis of a gouache and watercolour drawing on blue paper (private collection).1

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

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

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Givet, Looking up the Meuse to Fort Charlemont and the Tour Victoire 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-givet-looking-up-the-meuse-to-fort-charlemont-and-the-tour-r1150457, accessed 25 April 2024.