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A gouache, pen and ink and watercolour drawing entitled
Huy from the South-East is closely based on this pencil sketch of the city taken from outside its walls where, as Cecilia Powell notes, the ‘plateau of La Sarte afforded Turner a superb view’ (Tate
D20221; Turner Bequest CCXX N).
1 What appear to be isolated jottings of architectural details (a spire, an aedicule, a cupola) have been added beneath the sketch of Huy.
For other views of Huy in this sketchbook see Tate
D28043,
D28048,
D28053,
D28057,
D28067,
D28096,
D28131–D28136,
D28139–D28143,
D28147,
D28149; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 1a, 4, 6a, 8a, 13a, 28a, 47a–50, 51a–53a, 56a, 57a. There are also a number of colour sketches in gouache with watercolour and pen and ink produced on blue paper dated around 1839 (Tate
D20221,
D20222,
D20226,
D20268,
D20288; Turner Bequest CCXX N, O, S; CCXXII I, CCXXIII C).
For earlier views of Huy see the 1824
Huy and Dinant sketchbook (Tate
D20087–D20093,
D20109–D20110; Turner Bequest CCXVII 2a–6a, 16–7); the
Rivers Meuse and Moselle sketchbook of the same date (Tate
D19622–D19635; Turner Bequest CCXVI 36–43) 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).
Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013
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