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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner Antwerp: The Groenplaats and Cathedral of Our Lady 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Antwerp: The Groenplaats and Cathedral of Our Lady’ 1817
Folio 5 Verso:
Antwerp: The Groenplaats and Cathedral of Our Lady 1817
D13005
Turner Bequest CLXII 5a
Pencil on ‘blue’ laid writing paper, 156 x 93 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As confirmed by A.G.H. Bachrach1 this sketch is of Antwerp as the Cathedral of Our Lady, and its two towers appear in the background here and on folio 6 recto opposite (D13006) where the subject is extended. The view is from the Groenplaats, shown crowded with people, mostly women, one of whom is with a baby in a pram.
For Antwerp in this sketchbook, see notes to folio 2 verso (D12999).

Quirine van der Meer Mohr
December 2013

Revised by David Blayney Brown
September 2025

1
Bachrach 1994, p.60.
 

How to cite

Quirine van der Meer Mohr, ‘Antwerp: The Groenplaats and Cathedral of Our Lady 1817’, catalogue entry, December 2013, revised by David Blayney Brown, September 2025, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, June 2026, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/antwerp-the-groenplaats-and-cathedral-of-our-lady-r1212380, accessed 31 July 2026.