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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Fortifications at Luxembourg 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fortifications at Luxembourg’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 84 Recto:
Fortifications at Luxembourg 1824
D18471
Turner Bequest CCX 90
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCX 90’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough and swiftly rendered sketch depicts fortifications atop the Bock plateau at Luxembourg (see also Tate D19712–D19715; Turner Bequest CCXVI 82–83a). This sheet, and its verso: Tate D18472; Turner Bequest CCX 90a, was removed from the present sketchbook and bound into the Brighton and Arundel sketchbook (Turner Bequest CCX) at some point in the nineteenth or early twentieth century.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Fortifications 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-fortifications-at-luxembourg-r1174505, accessed 23 September 2024.