J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dinant, Looking Upstream from the Western River Bank below the Bridge; Version of the Same View 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dinant, Looking Upstream from the Western River Bank below the Bridge; Version of the Same View’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Verso:
Dinant, Looking Upstream from the Western River Bank below the Bridge; Version of the Same View 1839
D28153
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 59 a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 154 x 94 mm
Inscribed in black ink ‘159’ (number encircled) bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view is compositionally similar to one on folio 62 recto of this sketchbook (Tate D28157; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 62) and a gouache, pen and ink and watercolour drawing of Dinant on blue paper (Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne).1 There is a smaller version of the same view at the top right of the page.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.421 no.1026.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Dinant, Looking Upstream from the Western River Bank below the Bridge; Version of the Same View 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-dinant-looking-upstream-from-the-western-river-bank-below-r1150427, accessed 23 September 2024.