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 Bock, Pont du Château and Spanish Turret, Luxembourg, from the North 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Bock, Pont du Château and Spanish Turret, Luxembourg, from the North’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 63 Verso:
The Bock, Pont du Château and Spanish Turret, Luxembourg, from the North 1839
D28280
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 63 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Employing swift agile line, here Turner pictures the French military engineer Vauban’s fortified castle designed on the Rocher du Bock at left, and the arched two-storey Pont du Château and Spanish turret at far right.
For other sketches of Luxembourg in this book see Tate D28228–D28231, D28266–D28279, D282281–D28288; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 32a–34, 56a–63, 64–67a. 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 Bock, Pont du Château and Spanish Turret, Luxembourg, from the North 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-pont-du-chateau-and-spanish-turret-luxembourg-from-r1150557, accessed 26 April 2024.