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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839 > Spa, Dinant and Namur Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Louvain 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Louvain’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Verso:
Distant View of Louvain 1839
D28059
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 9 a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 94 x 154 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this undeveloped and summary sketch of the topography around Louvain the lofty spire and transept of the Gothic St Peter’s Church can be seen. The rest of the scene has been left undeveloped, with only a few strokes and dashes of the pencil indicating the rudiments of Turner’s mapping out of the scene. A similar panoramic drawing of Louvain can be found on the following folio (Tate D28060; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 10).
For other views of Louvain in this sketchbook see Tate D28044–D28047, D28049, D28054, D28060–D28064; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 2a–3a, 4a, 7, 10–12.

Alice Rylance-Watson
March 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant View of Louvain 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-distant-view-of-louvain-r1150333, accessed 23 April 2024.