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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketch Map of the Meuse between Dinant and Andenne; Landscape Sketches 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketch Map of the Meuse between Dinant and Andenne; Landscape Sketches’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Verso:
Sketch Map of the Meuse between Dinant and Andenne; Landscape Sketches 1824
D19559
Turner Bequest CCXVI 4 a
Pencil and pen and red ink on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil and pen and red ink by Turner (see main catalogue entry)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has drawn a sketch map of the Meuse between the Belgian cities of Dinant and Namur. Turner shows the Meuse meeting the River Sambre at Namur, and its easterly course towards Andenne. The locations that this cataloguer has been able to transcribe are listed below, with an approximation of the real place names noted in brackets to the right of the transcription where necessary or possible. The map is continued on the folio opposite (Tate D19560; Turner Bequest CCXVI 5).
‘Dinant’
‘Polvache’ (Château de Poilvache)
‘Bouvines’ (Bouvignes-sur-Meuse)
‘?Dummlin’
‘F[...]noy’
‘[?T/F]apeanelle’
‘?Kovoye’
‘Profondville’ (Profondeville)
‘?Javirey’
‘Dave’
‘?Frapcaul’
‘Florel’ (?Floreffe) | ‘R Sambre’
‘Namur’
‘Vedain’ (Vedrin)
‘Bolene’ (Boninne)
‘?Liege’ (next to detail of bridge)
‘Samson’
‘Thon’
‘Hen[...]on’ (?Heron)
‘Malroy’ (Melroy)
‘Andenne’
‘Reppe’
Above the sketch map Turner has written notes which are largely illegible to this cataloguer. The notes that are legible are transcribed below:
‘On/Our Way is G[...] ?in L[...] town is 3 [?fellows] [...] on [...] | Back of [...] One or two ?Hours/Horns Who [...]’.
Turner has also drawn a cursory sketch of ‘Sedan’ at bottom left of the sketch map.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketch Map of the Meuse between Dinant and Andenne; Landscape Sketches 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sketch-map-of-the-meuse-between-dinant-and-andenne-landscape-r1174347, accessed 23 April 2024.