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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Views of Montroyal and its Setting 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views of Montroyal and its Setting’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Recto:
Views of Montroyal and its Setting 1839
D28383
Turner Bequest CCXC 17
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 163 x 100 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Montroy’ (inverted) centre towards bottom
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘17’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–17’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These rough and swiftly wrought sketches depict the ruined fortress of Montroyal at Traben-Trarbach. All of the sketches were drawn with the sketchbook turned upside down. Turner has inscribed the page ‘Montroy’. There are other, similarly rendered sketches of the same monument on folio 16 verso (Tate D28382; Turner Bequest CCXC 16 a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Views of Montroyal and its Setting 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-views-of-montroyal-and-its-setting-r1150668, accessed 25 April 2024.