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 Roadside Scene on the Outskirts of Spa, with a Mother and Baby; Group of Seated Figures 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Roadside Scene on the Outskirts of Spa, with a Mother and Baby; Group of Seated Figures’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Recto:
Roadside Scene on the Outskirts of Spa, with a Mother and Baby; Group of Seated Figures 1839
D28114
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 38
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 94 x 154 mm
Watermarked ‘John F[ellows] | 18[10]’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘‘Red’, ‘1 Gre’, ‘W’, ‘B[...]’ inverted, bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘350’ bottom right and ‘38’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXVII–38’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has drawn a roadside scene at the outskirts of Spa with the profile of the Ardennes mountain range in view. A few houses are roughly jotted in and a figure, thought to be a mother and baby, can be seen in the foreground at the left. Orientated inversely to this scene is a group of seated figures near to the periphery of the page. The annotations ‘Red’, ‘1 Gre’, ‘W’, ‘B[...]’, probably records of colour in clothing, have been inscribed around the group.
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Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Roadside Scene on the Outskirts of Spa, with a Mother and Baby; Group of Seated Figures 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-roadside-scene-on-the-outskirts-of-spa-with-a-mother-and-r1150388, accessed 19 April 2024.