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 Houses; Distant View of Franchimont from the Liège-Spa Road South of the Castle; Reclining Figures 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Houses; Distant View of Franchimont from the Liège-Spa Road South of the Castle; Reclining Figures’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Verso:
Houses; Distant View of Franchimont from the Liège-Spa Road South of the Castle; Reclining Figures 1839
D28103
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 32 a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 154 x 94 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Road, Vines | Corn, Red’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has made three small separate sketches of a group of houses at the upper register; a view of the vale of the Hoëgne from the Liège-Spa road with the castle of Franchimont in the distance; and what appears to be a pair of reclining figures at the bottom register. The artist has annotated the central landscape drawing which runs across the gutter to the folio opposite (Tate D28104; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 33) with inscriptions which read ‘Road’, ‘Vines’, ‘Corn’, and ‘Red’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Houses; Distant View of Franchimont from the Liège-Spa Road South of the Castle; Reclining Figures 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-houses-distant-view-of-franchimont-from-the-liege-spa-road-r1150377, accessed 25 April 2024.