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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Six Views of Givet and Fort Charlemont 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Six Views of Givet and Fort Charlemont’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 58 Recto:
Six Views of Givet and Fort Charlemont 1824
D19665
Turner Bequest CCXVI 58
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Watermark ‘smith & [allnut] | 18[22]’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘58’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–58’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In these rough and swiftly rendered sketches Turner depicts Givet and the sixteenth-century fortress of Charlemont (see Tate D19664; Turner Bequest CCXVI 57a). The Pont de Meuse and Tour Victoire with its conical roof can be seen in two of the views.

Alice Rylance-Watson
March 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Six Views of Givet and Fort Charlemont 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-six-views-of-givet-and-fort-charlemont-r1174453, accessed 19 September 2024.