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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views of Chokier, Looking Downstream 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Views of Chokier, Looking Downstream’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Verso:
Two Views of Chokier, Looking Downstream 1824
D19615
Turner Bequest CCXVI 32 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Ea[...]l’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These swiftly rendered sketches of Chokier show the castle overlooking over the valley below atop a precipice. For more drawings of Chokier and its chateau see Tate D19611–D19614, D19616–D19618, D19635–D19636, D20085; Turner Bequest CCXVI 30a–32, 33–34, 43–43a, CCXVII 1a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
March 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Views of Chokier, Looking Downstream 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-two-views-of-chokier-looking-downstream-r1174403, accessed 24 April 2024.