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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839 > Spa, Dinant and Namur Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Louvain 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Louvain’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Recto:
Distant View of Louvain 1839
D28050
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 5
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 94 x 154 mm
Watermarked ‘John Fe[llows] | 18[10] | r’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘350’ bottom right and ‘5’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXVII–5’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has taken a swift sketch of the city of Louvain from the surrounding countryside. The spire of St Peter’s Church and what may be the top of the baroque Jesuit Church of St Michael (Sint-Michielskerk) to the left.
For other views of Louvain in this sketchbook see Tate D28044–D28047, D28049, D28054, D28059–D28064; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 2a–3a, 4a, 7, 9a–12.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant View of Louvain 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-distant-view-of-louvain-r1150324, accessed 25 April 2024.