Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketch Map of the Meuse between Mouzon and Sedan; List of Distances between Northern French and Belgian Towns 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Recto:
Sketch Map of the Meuse between Mouzon and Sedan; List of Distances between Northern French and Belgian Towns 1824
D19552
Turner Bequest CCXVI 1
Turner Bequest CCXVI 1
Pencil and pen and red ink on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil and pen and red ink by Turner (see main catalogue entry)
Signed and inscribed in black ink by Henry Scott Trimmer ‘No 242 | Contains 270 | Leaves Pencil | Sketches on both sides | H.S. Trimmer’ and Charles Turner (bottom right, in accordance with foliation)
Signed in pencil by John Prescott Knight ‘J.P.K.’ and Charles Locke Eastlake ‘C.L.E.’ (bottom right, in accordance with foliation)
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘1’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–1’ bottom right
Inscribed in pencil and pen and red ink by Turner (see main catalogue entry)
Signed and inscribed in black ink by Henry Scott Trimmer ‘No 242 | Contains 270 | Leaves Pencil | Sketches on both sides | H.S. Trimmer’ and Charles Turner (bottom right, in accordance with foliation)
Signed in pencil by John Prescott Knight ‘J.P.K.’ and Charles Locke Eastlake ‘C.L.E.’ (bottom right, in accordance with foliation)
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘1’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–1’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
References
1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.666, as ‘Sketch map of R. Meuse, between Mouzon and Sedan’.
1978
Agnes von der Borch, Studien zu Joseph Mallord William Turners Rheinreisen (1817–1844) (Ph.D thesis, Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn 1972), Bonn 1978, pp.61–2.
1991
Cecilia Powell, Turner’s Rivers of Europe: The Rhine, Meuse and Mosel, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1991, p.37 note 1 [p.60].
1995
Cecilia Powell, Turner in Germany, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1995, p.30 note 4 [p.77].
The sketch map of the Meuse between Mouzon and Sedan is continued here from the front flyleaf opposite (Tate D40727). From Mouzon, the towns listed include: ‘Villars’ (Villers-devant-Mouzon); ‘Raucourt’ (?Raucourt-et-Flaba); ‘Amblemont’ (Amblimont); ‘Romilly’ (Remilly-Allicourt); ‘Douzy’; ‘La Zeille’ (Bazeilles).
Turner has also inscribed a list of relative distances between towns on the Meuse which lie close to the border between northern France and Belgium. The list reads:
‘Verdun to Sedan 75 miles.
Sedan to Mezieres 26 miles.
Mez. to Charleville 5
Ch. to Givet 67
Givet to Dinant 16
Verdun to M. 101
V. to Charleville 106
V. to Givet 173
V. to Dinant 189
Sedan to D. 114
Sedan to Mezieres 26 miles.
Mez. to Charleville 5
Ch. to Givet 67
Givet to Dinant 16
Verdun to M. 101
V. to Charleville 106
V. to Givet 173
V. to Dinant 189
Sedan to D. 114
2½ German miles equal to 10 English.’1
Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2014
How to cite
Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketch Map of the Meuse between Mouzon and Sedan; List of Distances between Northern French and Belgian Towns 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www