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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of Givet and Fort Charlemont 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of Givet and Fort Charlemont’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 58 Verso:
Sketches of Givet and Fort Charlemont 1824
D19666
Turner Bequest CCXVI 58 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Watermark ‘smith & [allnut] | 18[22]’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Swiftly wrought, these sketches show the frontier town of Givet dominated by the Fort Charlemont (they continue on the opposite folio Tate D19667; Turner Bequest CCXVI 59). The Pont de Meuse and Tour Victoire can be seen in the upper and lowermost sketches.
Further views of Givet and its fortress are found on Tate D19664–D19665, D19668–D19671; Turner Bequest 57a–58, 59a–61; for later drawings dating from 1839 see Tate D28170–D28185, D28187; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 2a–10, 11.

Alice Rylance-Watson
March 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketches 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-sketches-of-givet-and-fort-charlemont-r1174454, accessed 26 April 2024.