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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Rham and the Bock, Luxembourg, from the Fetschenhof 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Rham and the Bock, Luxembourg, from the Fetschenhof’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 57 Recto:
The Rham and the Bock, Luxembourg, from the Fetschenhof 1839
D28267
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 57
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘57’ bottom right
Stamped in black ink ‘CCLXXXVIII–57’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This pencil sketch of Luxembourg City is believed to be preparatory material for the gouache, pen and ink and watercolour drawing of the same subject on blue paper (Musée de l’État, Luxembourg).1 Turner’s viewpoint, the Fetschenhof, affords a more comprehensive prospect and includes the Rham with the French military engineer Vauban’s fortifications on the left, the Grünewald and the Bock.
For other sketches of Luxembourg in this book see Tate D28228–D28231, D28266, D28268–D28288; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 32a–34, 56a, 57a–67a. See also the earlier Rivers Meuse and Moselle sketchbook of 1824 (Tate D19712, D19714; Turner Bequest CCXVI 82, 83).

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.421 no.1020.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Rham and the Bock, Luxembourg, from the Fetschenhof 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-the-rham-and-the-bock-luxembourg-from-the-fetschenhof-r1150544, accessed 24 April 2024.