Joseph Mallord William Turner

Figures at a Quay, Liège; Sketches of Rocks along the Meuse near Samson

1824

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Rivers Meuse and Moselle Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 78 × 118 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D20060
Turner Bequest CCXVI 260

Catalogue entry

Here Turner records three rough views of the mighty limestone rocks which line the Meuse near the village of Samson, Belgium (see also Tate D20058; Turner Bequest CCXVI 259). At top left there is a swiftly rendered jotting of the quayside in the city of Liège. Boatmen have moored their vessels at a station on the quay ready to disembark with their wares or to load up their boats with goods for a new journey. For other views of Liège taken in 1824, see Tate D19598–D19599, D20061–D20064, D20095–D20099, D20105; Turner Bequest Turner Bequest CCXVI 24–24a, 260a–262, CCXVII 8–10, 13.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

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