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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Scenes on River; the Minnewater at Bruges 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Scenes on River; the Minnewater at Bruges’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 174 Recto:
Scenes on River; the Minnewater at Bruges 1824
D19887
Turner Bequest CCXVI 168
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘168’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–168’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has produced a cursory jotting of a river barge on a canal and a view of the Minnewater in the Flemish city of Bruges. The tower (called the Poertoren) at the Minnewater, the Church of Our Lady, and the Belfry can be seen in profile. Turner visited Bruges briefly on his journey from Ghent to Ostend from 6 to 7 September. For other drawings of the city see Tate D12705–D12713, D19268, D19272–D19278, D19888; Turner Bequest CLX 2v–7a, CCXIV 216, 218–221, CCXVI 168a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Scenes on River; the Minnewater at Bruges 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-scenes-on-river-the-minnewater-at-bruges-r1174682, accessed 11 May 2024.