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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Namur: The Citadel, Hospice d'Harscamp and View up the Meuse 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Namur: The Citadel, Hospice d'Harscamp and View up the Meuse’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Recto:
Namur: The Citadel, Hospice d'Harscamp and View up the Meuse 1833
D29631
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 18
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 view, taken with the sketchbook turned upside down, shows Namur in Belgium. Turner draws close to the confluence of the Sambre and Meuse, looking up the Meuse toward the bridge and Jambes at left. Namur citadel can be seen atop the heights at centre, with the Hospice d’Harscamp visible at right (see Tate D20108; Turner Bequest CCXVII 15).

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Namur: The Citadel, Hospice d'Harscamp and View up the Meuse 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-hospice-dharscamp-and-view-up-the-meuse-r1202929, accessed 02 August 2025.