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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Meuse-Mosel, Luxembourg and Northern ... > Rivers Meuse and Moselle Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner River Valley 1824

Image 1 of 2
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘River Valley’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 87 Verso:
River Valley 1824
D19721
Turner Bequest CCXVI 86 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered in fine agile line, this sketch shows a plateau and river valley with a town at its base. In the top left corner is a small detail of a street in a town with an arched gateway. Curators Gérard Thill, Jean-Claude Muller and Jean Luc Koltz have suggested that this may be a distant view of Luxembourg.1

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

1
Thill, Muller and Koltz 1984, p.77 no.19.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘River Valley 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-river-valley-r1174512, accessed 25 April 2024.