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 The Church, Citadel, Town Hall and Eastern Edge of the Bridge at Dinant, Looking Downstream; Dinant, Looking Upstream from the Eastern River Bank below Bridge 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Church, Citadel, Town Hall and Eastern Edge of the Bridge at Dinant, Looking Downstream; Dinant, Looking Upstream from the Eastern River Bank below Bridge’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 66 Recto:
The Church, Citadel, Town Hall and Eastern Edge of the Bridge at Dinant, Looking Downstream; Dinant, Looking Upstream from the Eastern River Bank below Bridge 1839
D28165
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 66
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 94 x 154 mm
Watermarked ‘John F[ellows] | 18[10]’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Straw’, ‘[?Tan]’, ‘White’ at centre towards bottom
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘350’ bottom right and ‘66’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXVII–66’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has produced a rough sketch of Dinant, marking out the elements of the landscape in loose, abbreviated line. There is also a small sketch running parallel to the gutter of the book depicting the citadel and the tip of the spire of Notre-Dame Church.
For earlier views of Dinant taken in 1824, see Tate D19556–D19663, D20109–D20113; Turner Bequest CCXVI 53a–57, CCXVII 16–19.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Church, Citadel, Town Hall and Eastern Edge of the Bridge at Dinant, Looking Downstream; Dinant, Looking Upstream from the Eastern River Bank below Bridge 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-the-church-citadel-town-hall-and-eastern-edge-of-the-bridge-r1150439, accessed 19 September 2024.