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 Architectural Details; Huy and its Citadel from the Hillside to the West, Looking Downstream; Huy from the East 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Architectural Details; Huy and its Citadel from the Hillside to the West, Looking Downstream; Huy from the East’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Verso:
Architectural Details; Huy and its Citadel from the Hillside to the West, Looking Downstream; Huy from the East 1839
D28141
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 52 a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 94 x 154 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The largest of these sketches is compositionally similar to representations of Huy in two drawings: Tate D20222, D28139; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 51a, CCXX O. It forms the basis of a gouache, pen and ink, and watercolour drawing on blue paper entitled Huy from the West: Bird’s-eye View, c.1839 (Tate D20288; Turner Bequest CCXXIII C).
Above and below this principal sketch is a line of architectural features: rooftops, a spire, and what appears to be a crumbling piece of masonry. Parallel to the gutter of the sketchbook and drawn inversely to the principal sketch is a rough outline of the profile of Huy from the East with the citadel prominent at the right.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Architectural Details; Huy and its Citadel from the Hillside to the West, Looking Downstream; Huy from the East 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-architectural-details-huy-and-its-citadel-from-the-hillside-r1150415, accessed 23 April 2024.