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 View from the Grünewald of the Bock, the Rham and Luxembourg City 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View from the Grünewald of the Bock, the Rham and Luxembourg City’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 66
View from the Grünewald of the Bock, the Rham and Luxembourg City 1839
D28285
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 66
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
Partial Pro Patria watermark
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘66’ bottom right
Stamped in black ink ‘CCLXXXVIII–66’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered with bold pencil line, this sketch depicts the Bock and the Rham plateaux with its various fortifications and churches from the northern stretches of the Alzette valley. Elements of this sketch and others (Tate D28281–D28283, D28286–D28287; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 64–65, 66a–67) were combined to form a gouache, watercolour and pen and ink drawing on blue paper of a similar date.1

Part of the topographical plan of Luxembourg extends onto this page from the folio opposite (Tate D28284; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 65 a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.421 no.1022.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘View from the Grünewald of the Bock, the Rham and Luxembourg City 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-view-from-the-grunewald-of-the-bock-the-rham-and-luxembourg-r1150562, accessed 27 April 2024.