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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Town of Luxembourg and the Buildings of the Rham and Grund from the Porte de Trèves 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Town of Luxembourg and the Buildings of the Rham and Grund from the Porte de Trèves’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Recto:
The Town of Luxembourg and the Buildings of the Rham and Grund from the Porte de Trèves 1839
D28271
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 59
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
Partial Pro Patria watermark
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘59’ bottom right
Stamped in black ink ‘CCLXXXVIII–59’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This swiftly rendered sketch depicts buildings in the Grund district of Luxembourg City. The narrow, tapering spire of the Church of Saint-Jean-du-Grund is visible in the foreground at right. Beyond is the Rham plateau and the old town of Luxembourg sketched in profile. The tower of St Michael’s Church crowns the cliff at far right.
For other sketches of Luxembourg in this book see Tate D28228–D28231, D28266, D28267–D28270, D28272–D28288; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 32a–34, 56a, 57–58a, 59a–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 Town of Luxembourg and the Buildings of the Rham and Grund from the Porte de Trèves 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-town-of-luxembourg-and-the-buildings-of-the-rham-and-r1150548, accessed 24 April 2024.