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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of the Castle of Chokier on the Meuse, Looking Upstream; View near Chokier 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of the Castle of Chokier on the Meuse, Looking Upstream; View near Chokier’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Distant View of the Castle of Chokier on the Meuse, Looking Upstream; View near Chokier 1824
D19611
Turner Bequest CCXVI 30 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘smith & [allnut] | 18[22]’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Corn’ bottom far left, ‘Boats’ bottom left, ‘Only Light’ bottom centre towards centre, ‘Wood’ bottom centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These picturesque views show the village and castle of Chokier at a distance. Turner has annotated the lowermost sketch with inscriptions marking where ‘Light’ falls, a wooded area, and a crop of ‘Corn’. For more drawings of Chokier and its chateau see Tate D19612–D19618, D19635–D19636, D20085; Turner Bequest CCXVI 31–34, 43–43a, CCXVII 1a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
March 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant View of the Castle of Chokier on the Meuse, Looking Upstream; View near Chokier 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-distant-view-of-the-castle-of-chokier-on-the-meuse-looking-r1174399, accessed 20 April 2024.