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 at Luxembourg, along the Alzette Valley 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View at Luxembourg, along the Alzette Valley’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 66 Verso:
View at Luxembourg, along the Alzette Valley 1839
D28286
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 66 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
Partial Pro Patria watermark
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner depicts the craggy and precipitous valley of the Alzette. Elements of this sketch and others (Tate D28281–D28283, D28285, D28287; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 64–65, 66, 67) were combined to form a gouache, watercolour and pen and ink drawing on blue paper of a similar date.1

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 at Luxembourg, along the Alzette Valley 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-at-luxembourg-along-the-alzette-valley-r1150563, accessed 26 April 2024.