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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Five Sketches of Rocks along the Meuse, near Namur 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Five Sketches of Rocks along the Meuse, near Namur’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 266 Recto:
Five Sketches of Rocks along the Meuse, near Namur 1824
D20059
Turner Bequest CCXVI 259 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Namur’ centre towards top right, ‘Clearing off of Rain’ centre towards bottom left
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–259’ top left (inverted)
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘259’ bottom left (inverted)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This series of diminutive and intricately rendered views show the Meuse valley near the Belgian city of Namur. Turner travelled to Namur at the beginning of his tour, on 16 and 17 August 1824 (see Tate D19641–D19649, D20057, D20058; Turner Bequest CCXVI 46–50, 258a, 259). Beneath the second to lowermost view Turner has inscribed ‘Clearing off of Rain’ by the water’s edge.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Five Sketches of Rocks along the Meuse, near Namur 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-five-sketches-of-rocks-along-the-meuse-near-namur-r1174853, accessed 24 April 2024.