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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839 > Givet, Mézières, Verdun, Metz, Luxemburg ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Pont du Château, Luxembourg, Looking North-Eastwards to the Rham 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Pont du Château, Luxembourg, Looking North-Eastwards to the Rham’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 62 Recto
The Pont du Château, Luxembourg, Looking North-Eastwards to the Rham 1839
D28277
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 62
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
Partial Pro Patria watermark
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘62’ bottom right
Stamped in black ink ‘CCLXXXVIII–62’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The striking two-storey Pont du Château, built in 1735 to bridge the gap between two precipitous ridges, is seen here at the left. Buildings can be seen here and there on the craggy Rham plateau beyond. For other sketches in which the Pont du Château features see D28274, D28280, D28281; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 60a, 63a, 64. For a colour drawing of the subject see Tate D20249; Turner Bequest CCXXI P and one in the National Gallery of Ireland.1

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.419 no.1010, incorrectly catalogued as Sisteron, Basses Alpes, c.1830.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Pont du Château, Luxembourg, Looking North-Eastwards to the Rham 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-pont-du-chateau-luxembourg-looking-north-eastwards-to-r1150554, accessed 11 May 2024.