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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views of Thionville from the Moselle, Showing the Towers of Saint-Maximin Church, the Bell-Tower and the Town Hall of 1695 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Views of Thionville from the Moselle, Showing the Towers of Saint-Maximin Church, the Bell-Tower and the Town Hall of 1695’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 37 Recto:
Two Views of Thionville from the Moselle, Showing the Towers of Saint-Maximin Church, the Bell-Tower and the Town Hall of 1695 1839
D28237
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 37
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
Partial Pro Patria watermark
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Thionville’ towards bottom left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘37’ bottom right
Stamped in black ink ‘CCLXXXVIII–37’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The principal drawing is a view of the sixteenth-century bell-tower belonging to Thionville’s town hall. At the bottom left of the page Turner has drawn another view of the town, diminutive in scale, with the basic outlined profile of the twin towers of Saint-Maximin Church. These are repeated above at top left. The artist has inscribed the page with ‘Thionville’ towards bottom left.
For other views of Thionville in this sketchbook see Tate D28224, D28225, D28237; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 29a, 30, 36a; see also the Rivers Meuse and Moselle sketchbook of 1824 (Tate D19710; Turner Bequest CCXVI 81).

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Views of Thionville from the Moselle, Showing the Towers of Saint-Maximin Church, the Bell-Tower and the Town Hall of 1695 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-thionville-from-the-moselle-showing-the-towers-r1150514, accessed 26 April 2024.