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 67 Recto:
View at Luxembourg, along the Alzette Valley 1839
D28287
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 67
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
Partial Pro Patria watermark
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘67’ bottom right
Stamped in black ink ‘CCLXXXVIII–67’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this swiftly executed sketch, left largely undeveloped, Turner pictures the Alzette valley at Luxembourg. 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
1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.421 no.1022.
Technical notes:
There is staining from the leather overlaps on the back outside cover at the top left and right and bottom right of the page.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

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-r1150564, accessed 24 September 2024.