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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Quayside View at Liège, with the Pont des Arches and Boats 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Quayside View at Liège, with the Pont des Arches and Boats’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Quayside View at Liège, with the Pont des Arches and Boats 1824
D20063
Turner Bequest CCXVI 261 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 figures assemble at the edge of the quay wall next to moored boats loaded with cargo. Beyond is the Pont des Arches and the spire of the Cathedral of Saint-Paul at right. 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, with the Pont des Arches and 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-with-the-pont-des-arches-and-boats-r1174858, accessed 25 April 2024.