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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Givet, Looking down the Meuse from South of Fort Charlemont 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Givet, Looking down the Meuse from South of Fort Charlemont’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Givet, Looking down the Meuse from South of Fort Charlemont 1839
D28182
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 8 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 two sketches of Givet in tentative and abbreviated line. The larger of the two encompasses a variety of sights: the fortress of Charlemont atop the precipitous valley cliff; the Tour Victoire on the banks of the Meuse and Church of Saint-Hilaire, the stone bridge and finally the spire of Notre-Dame Church. Above the principal drawing is a further sketch with quick notations of trees and a tower belonging to the complex of Charlemont. For other drawings of Givet see Tate D28170–D28181, D28183–D28185, D28187; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 2a–8, 9–10, 11.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Givet, Looking down the Meuse from South of Fort Charlemont 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-down-the-meuse-from-south-of-fort-charlemont-r1150459, accessed 26 April 2024.