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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
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 of Luxembourg from the North 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?View of Luxembourg from the North’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 67 Verso:
?View of Luxembourg from the North 1839
D28288
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 67 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
With swift, cursory line, Turner has pictured Luxembourg from a northerly perspective, leaving the majority of the view undeveloped.
Technical notes:
There is staining from the leather overlaps on the back outside cover at the top left and right and bottom left of the page.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘?View of 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-view-of-luxembourg-from-the-north-r1150565, accessed 12 May 2024.