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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Tower, Probably at Luxembourg 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tower, Probably at Luxembourg’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 82 Verso:
Tower, Probably at Luxembourg 1824
D19713
Turner Bequest CCXVI 82 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This cursory sketch most likely depicts the fortifications of Luxembourg’s Bock plateau (see also Tate D19712, D19714; Turner Bequest CCXVI 82, 83).

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Tower, Probably at Luxembourg 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-tower-probably-at-luxembourg-r1174502, accessed 26 April 2024.