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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Namur: The Citadel and View up the Rhine 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Namur: The Citadel and View up the Rhine’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 20 Recto:
Namur: The Citadel and View up the Rhine 1833
D29633
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 19
Pencil on cream wove paper, 113 x 185 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘19’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVI 19’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch shows the Belgian city of Namur, with its citadel in the distance. The dome of St Aubin cathedral is visible near a windmill in the foreground.
For other views of Namur in this sketchbook see Tate D29620–D29623, D29627–D29631, D29633–D29642, D29647, D29751; Turner Bequest CCXCVI 12a–14, 16–18, 19–23a, 30. For earlier views, taken in 1824, see Tate D20104–D20108; Turner Bequest CCXVII 12a–15; for later, see Tate D28042, D28065, D28069, D28118, D28120–D28121, D28123, D28125–D28127, D28151–D28152.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Namur: The Citadel and View up the Rhine 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-namur-the-citadel-and-view-up-the-rhine-r1202931, accessed 05 April 2026.