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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Town Hall and St Peter's Church, Louvain, from the South-East Corner of the Market Place 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Town Hall and St Peter's Church, Louvain, from the South-East Corner of the Market Place’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Verso:
The Town Hall and St Peter’s Church, Louvain, from the South-East Corner of the Market Place 1839
D28047
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 3 a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 94 x 154 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Clock’ centre towards top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As with folio two verso (Tate D28045; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 2a) this sketch forms the basis of a gouache, pen and ink and watercolour drawing on blue paper (Tate D24590; Turner Bequest CCLIX 25) of Louvain Town Hall and St Peter’s Church. At the foot of St Peter’s is a line of picturesque Flemish houses, diminutive in scale when set against the lofty flying buttresses and choir of the church. Built in the Brabantine Gothic style in the fifteenth century, St Peter’s is neighbour to the equally jewel-like Late Gothic Town Hall or ‘Stadhuis’ of Louvain represented by Turner at the left.
For other views of Louvain in this sketchbook see Tate D28046, D28049–D28050, D28054, D28059–D28064; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 3, 4a–5, 7, 9a–12. For a further colour drawing of Louvain executed in 1839 in gouache, pen and ink, and watercolour on blue paper see Tate D20263; Turner Bequest CCXXII D.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Town Hall and St Peter’s Church, Louvain, from the South-East Corner of the Market Place 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-town-hall-and-st-peters-church-louvain-from-the-south-r1150321, accessed 23 April 2024.