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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

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

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 58 Recto:
The Rham and the Bock, Luxembourg, from the Fetschenhof 1839
D28269
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 58
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘58’ bottom right
Stamped in black ink ‘CCLXXXVIII–58’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch depicts two of Luxembourg City’s fortified plateaux: the Rham and the Bock, from the Fetschenhof, a vantage point which afforded Turner an extensive view of the City’s topography. There is another small sketch of a ridge sloping diagonally towards the river valley at the lower register, running parallel to the gutter of the sketchbook.
For other sketches of Luxembourg in this book see Tate D28228–D28231, D28266, D28267–D28268, D28270–D28288; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 32a–34, 56a, 57–57a, 58a–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

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-r1150546, accessed 28 March 2024.