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 Villas on the Outskirts of Spa 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Villas on the Outskirts of Spa’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Verso:
Villas on the Outskirts of Spa 1839
D28087
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 23 a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 94 x 154 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘B[?ellevue]’ | ‘B[...]’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has produced a rough and swiftly rendered sketch of villas in the outskirts of Spa. Drawn in simple outline, the lodgings are situated toward the base of the Ardennes ridge. What appears to be the word ‘Bellevue’ followed by an indecipherable word beneath it has been inscribed at the bottom right of the sheet.
For other views of Spa in this sketchbook see Tate D28078, D28082–D28083; D28086, D28088–D28092, D28107–D28116; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 19, 21–21a, 23, 24–6, 34a–39a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Villas on the Outskirts of Spa 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-villas-on-the-outskirts-of-spa-r1150361, accessed 23 April 2024.