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 Namur from Saint-Servais, with the Cathedral Seen above the Town Walls 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Namur from Saint-Servais, with the Cathedral Seen above the Town Walls’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Verso:
Namur from Saint-Servais, with the Cathedral Seen above the Town Walls 1839
D28069
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 14 a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 94 x 154 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Sambre’ at bottom towards right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough drawing of the city of Namur from the old commune of Saint-Servais is likely related to a sketch on folio12 recto (D28065; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 12 a). With swift jagged line Turner renders the basic impression of the topography of the river valley, incorporating the baroque dome of Namur’s Saint-Aubin Cathedral at centre. The artist has inscribed the name of the Meuse tributary, the ‘Sambre’ river, at the bottom.
For other views of Namur from Saint-Servais in this sketchbook see Tate D28151–D28152; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 58a–59.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Namur from Saint-Servais, with the Cathedral Seen above the Town Walls 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-namur-from-saint-servais-with-the-cathedral-seen-above-the-r1150343, accessed 23 April 2024.