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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Views of and near Chokier 1824

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Recto:
Four Views of and near Chokier 1824
D19616
Turner Bequest CCXVI 33
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Sail in Light’ bottom right
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘33’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–33’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These four swiftly rendered and summary views show the village and castle of Chokier and its environs, taken as Turner travelled upstream towards Flône. The lowermost sketch depicts a riverboat with its ‘Sail in [the] Light’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
March 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Four Views of and 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-four-views-of-and-near-chokier-r1174404, accessed 28 March 2024.