Graphite on paper
Rivers Meuse and Moselle Sketchbook
Rivers Meuse and Moselle Sketchbook
Meuse-Mosel, Luxembourg and Northern France 1824
Meuse-Mosel, Luxembourg and Northern France 1824
Belgium
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Rivers Meuse and Moselle Sketchbook
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Distant Castle Chokier on Meuse Looking Upstream near Chokier
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
Belgium
castle
Château de Chokier
countries and continents
hill
landscape
man-made landmarks (non-UK)
military
natural features (non-UK)
places
river
River Meuse
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
water: inland
wooded
<p>This sketchbook provides an enormous amount of valuable evidence relating to Turner's 1824 tour: his timetable and itinerary, an unbelievable number of tiny drawings and the preparatory sketches for his 1825 oil painting of Dieppe which prove that his first Meuse-Mosel tour took place in 1824 and not, as previously supposed, in 1826. The sketches on ff.30v and 31r show the Meuse at and near Chokier on the north bank between Liège and Huy, an imposing eighteenth-century castle with one remaining medieval tower and massive walls, which still stands on one of the precipitous rocks for which the Meuse is famous.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite
Distant View of the Castle of Chokier on the Meuse, Looking Upstream; View near Chokier
support: 78 × 118 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>This sketchbook provides an enormous amount of valuable evidence relating to Turner's 1824 tour: his timetable and itinerary, an unbelievable number of tiny <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> and the preparatory sketches for his 1825 oil <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> of Dieppe which prove that his first Meuse-Mosel tour took place in 1824 and not, as previously supposed, in 1826. The sketches on ff.30v and 31r show the Meuse at and near Chokier on the north bank between Liège and Huy, an imposing eighteenth-century castle with one remaining medieval tower and massive walls, which still stands on one of the precipitous rocks for which the Meuse is famous.</p>
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2015-04-19T00:00:00
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architecture Belgium castle Château de Chokier countries and continents hill landscape man-made landmarks (non-UK) military natural features (non-UK) places river River Meuse townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features water: inland wooded
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