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 Spa from the Hillside 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Spa from the Hillside’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Verso:
Spa from the Hillside 1839
D28091
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 25 a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 94 x 154 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this swiftly rendered sketch in fine pencil line, Turner has pictured Spa from the hillsides which surround it. The tapering point of the spire of the Church of Saint-Rémacle can be seen near the centre.
For other views of Spa in this sketchbook see Tate D28078, D28082–D28083, D28086–D28089, D28090, D28092, D28107–D28116; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 19, 21–21a, 23–24a, 25, 26, 34a–39a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Spa from the Hillside 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-spa-from-the-hillside-r1150365, accessed 18 April 2024.