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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Mosan Landscape; Sedan; ?Charleville 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mosan Landscape; Sedan; ?Charleville’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 67 Recto:
Mosan Landscape; Sedan; ?Charleville 1824
D19683
Turner Bequest CCXVI 67
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Blue’ top centre; ‘W [?Gup]’ top left
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘67’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–67’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The central sketch is a roughly rendered view of Sedan (see Tate D19682; Turner Bequest CCXVI 66a) and the lowermost sketches are catalogued by Cecilia Powell as prospects of Charleville. The twin-towered church with narrow tapering spires is presumably the ancient chapel built by Charles Gonzaga, the founder of Charleville (see Tate D19558; Turner Bequest CCXVI 4). This chapel was remodelled into the Church of Saint-Rémi in the mid to late nineteenth century.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Mosan Landscape; Sedan; ?Charleville 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-mosan-landscape-sedan-charleville-r1174471, accessed 25 April 2024.