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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Views of Givet and Fort Charlemont, Looking Downstream 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views of Givet and Fort Charlemont, Looking Downstream’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Recto:
Views of Givet and Fort Charlemont, Looking Downstream 1824
D19671
Turner Bequest CCXVI 61
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Watermark ‘smith & [allnut] | 18[22]’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[?St M...]’ far left centre; ‘Wood’ centre towards bottom right; ‘Road’ towards bottom right (descending)
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘61’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–61’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These slight and loosely rendered sketches show Givet and the Fort Charlemont at a distance, as Turner made his way by boat towards Vireux. There is a squared-off landscape at right which has been annotated with the word ‘Wood’. Similar views are shown on the folio opposite: Tate D19670; Turner Bequest CCXVI 60a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
March 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Views of Givet and Fort Charlemont, 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-views-of-givet-and-fort-charlemont-looking-downstream-r1174459, accessed 26 April 2024.