In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Gouache, pen and ink and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 140 × 195 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D24784
Turner Bequest CCLIX 219
Display caption
This lively scene is based on a rough pencil sketch made while Turner was waiting for the diligence that would take him to Louvain at the very start of his 1839 tour. He modified the architecture of each of the buildings shown, but kept some of their essential characteristics and the composition as a whole remained the same. In his sketch, the celebrated town hall of Brussels was given only very summary treatment, but his memory gave him sufficient information to show the many ornate tiers of this immensely tall Gothic building in a thoroughly convincing, if somewhat impressionistic, manner.
Gallery label, August 2004
Does this text contain inaccurate information or language that you feel we should improve or change? We would like to hear from you.
Catalogue entry
Explore
- architecture(41,310)
- periods and styles(5,203)
- public and municipal(2,388)
-
- town hall(62)
- townscapes / man-made features(21,653)
-
- townscape(3,307)
- group(4,247)
- Belgium(583)
- transport: land(2,938)
-
- carriage(292)
You might like
-
Joseph Mallord William Turner St Peter’s Church, Louvain, from the East Side of the Town Hall
c.1839 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner The Town Hall, Louvain, and the Choir of St Peter’s Church
c.1839 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner The ‘Pouhon Pierre Le Grand’ at Spa
c.1839 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner River Erdre, Nantes
c.1828 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner The Place Royale, Spa, from the Entrance to the ‘Promenade de Sept-Heures’
c.1839 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner River Erdre and the Pont Sauvetot, Nantes
c.1828 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner Notre-Dame, Huy
c.1839 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner Liège from the Pont des Arches
c.1839 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner Tours Cathedral
c.1826–8 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner Louviers: The Church of Notre-Dame from the South-East
?1827–9 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner Louviers: A Street Leading to the Church of Notre-Dame
c.1827–9 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner East Cowes Castle from the West, with Figures on the Steps below the Conservatory
1827 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner Tour de Guet and Hôtel de Ville, Calais
c.1826–30 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner The Porte Saint-Denis, Paris
c.1833 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner Evreux: A Street, with the Spires of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame
?1827–9