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 View of the Meuse from the Hillside 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View of the Meuse from the Hillside’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 58 Recto:
View of the Meuse from the Hillside 1839
D28150
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 58
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 94 x 154 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘350’ bottom right and ‘58’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXVII–58’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has rendered the craggy, pitted cliffs of the Meuse valley with buildings or towers in the foreground and beyond. The view beyond is wide and expansive. The river’s sweeping serpentine curve evokes a sense of the continual carving erosion of the landscape.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘View of the Meuse from the Hillside 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-view-of-the-meuse-from-the-hillside-r1150424, accessed 26 April 2024.