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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Gabled Houses at Brussels 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Gabled Houses at Brussels’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 270 Verso:
Gabled Houses at Brussels 1824
D20067
Turner Bequest CCXVI 263 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Brux’ top left
Watermark ‘[smith &] allnut | [18]22’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight and swiftly rendered sketch shows traditional crow-stepped gabled houses at ‘Brux’, presumably Turner’s shortening of Bruxelles or Brussels. The artist stayed at the Belgian city on 12 August 1824, at the very beginning of his tour. See also Tate D20068–D20072; Turner Bequest CCXVI 264–266.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Gabled Houses at Brussels 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-gabled-houses-at-brussels-r1174862, accessed 13 May 2024.