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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Quayside View at Liège, Looking up the Meuse to the Pont des Arches, with Boats 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Quayside View at Liège, Looking up the Meuse to the Pont des Arches, with Boats’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Quayside View at Liège, Looking up the Meuse to the Pont des Arches, with Boats 1824
D20061
Turner Bequest CCXVI 260 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of the quayside at Liège, Belgium, on the banks of the river Meuse. Turner visited the city at the beginning and towards the end of his tour on 13 August and 4 September. In the foreground a figure stands at the edge of the quay wall looking towards the moored boats loaded with cargo and beyond to the Pont des Arches. The spire of the Cathedral of Saint-Paul is visible in the middle distance at centre. For other views of Liège see Tate D19598–D19599, D20060, D20062–D20064, D20095–D20099, D20105, D28066; Turner Bequest Turner Bequest CCXVI 24–24a, 260, 261–262, CCXVII 8–10, 13, CCLXVIII 13.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Quayside View at Liège, Looking up the Meuse to the Pont des Arches, with Boats 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-quayside-view-at-liege-looking-up-the-meuse-to-the-pont-des-r1174856, accessed 26 April 2024.