Joseph Mallord William Turner

Huy from the Liège Road, Looking Upstream

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: D19633
Turner Bequest CCXVI 42

Catalogue entry

This cursory jotting of Huy was taken by Turner from a vantage point on the Liège road; a colour drawing showing a similar view is housed in the Fitzwilliam Museum’s collection.1

For other views of Huy in this sketchbook see Tate D19625–D19632, D19634, D19635; Turner Bequest CCXVI 37a–41a, 42a, 43; see also the Huy and Dinant sketchbook (Tate D20087–D20093, D20109–D20110; Turner Bequest CCXVII 2a–6a, 16–7) and the Brussels up to Mannheim sketchbook of 1833 (Tate D29653, D29656–D29659, D29661–D29662, D29768, D29771; Turner Bequest 29, 30a–32, 33–33a, 90, 91a). For later sketches, see Tate D28048, D28053, D28057, D28067, D28096, D28131–D28137, D28139–D28143, D28147, D28149; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 4, 6a, 8a, 13a, 28a, 47a–50a, 51a–53a, 56a, 57a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
March 2014

Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.421 no.1024.

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