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

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

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp; Coastline 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?The Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp; Coastline’ 1817
Folio 4 Verso:
?The Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp; Coastline 1817
D13003
Turner Bequest CLXII 4a
Pencil on ‘blue’ laid writing paper, 93 x 156 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg’s suggestion that this rudimentary sketch, with the page turned horizontally, represents the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp1 is plausible in the light of adjacent views running from folio 2 verso to the recto of this page (D12999–D13002) and on folios 5 verso‒7 recto (D13005‒D13008), but the details are too vague to be certain.
A small sketch of a coastline, made at bottom right with the page turned vertically, continues on folio 5 recto opposite (D13004).

Quirine van der Meer Mohr
December 2013

Revised by David Blayney Brown
September 2025

1
Finberg 1909, I. p.469.

How to cite

Quirine van der Meer Mohr, ‘?The Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp; Coastline 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/the-cathedral-of-our-lady-antwerp-coastline-r1212378, accessed 31 July 2026.