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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Bock, Luxembourg, with the Grünewald in the Distance 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Bock, Luxembourg, with the Grünewald in the Distance’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 57 Verso:
The Bock, Luxembourg, with the Grünewald in the Distance 1839
D28268
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 57 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Taken together, this sketch and that on folio 58 verso (Tate D28270; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 58 a) form one panoramic view of the west and the north of Luxembourg City. Turner drew this prospect from a high vantage point to east of the Porte de Trèves. The sketches are the basis for a gouache, pen and ink and watercolour drawing on blue paper of the Bock and the Rham plateau looking over the Alzette valley (Tate D20246; Turner Bequest CCXXI M). The Rocher du Bock, the city’s third great fortified rock, is the focus of the present drawing, pictured diagonally across the pager. For further colour drawings of the Bock see also Tate D20273, D20285; Turner Bequest CCXXII N, Z.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Bock, Luxembourg, with the Grünewald in the Distance 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-bock-luxembourg-with-the-grunewald-in-the-distance-r1150545, accessed 19 April 2024.