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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Fortifications at Mézières 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fortifications at Mézières’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 66 Recto:
Fortifications at Mézières 1824
D19681
Turner Bequest CCXVI 66
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘66’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–66’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In these sketches Turner pictures Mézières’s network of ramparts, turreted walls, bastions and defensive gateways, constructed between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries to protect the city from siege (see also Tate D19680; Turner Bequest CCXVI 65 a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Fortifications at Mézières 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-fortifications-at-mezieres-r1174469, accessed 23 September 2024.