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 Franchimont from the Liège-Spa Road South of the Castle 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Franchimont from the Liège-Spa Road South of the Castle’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Recto:
Distant View of Franchimont from the Liège-Spa Road South of the Castle 1839
D28104
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 33
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 94 x 154 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Corn’, ‘Red’ continued from previous folio
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘350’ bottom right and ‘33’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXVII–33’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook orientated horizontally, Turner has produced a basic linear sketch of the valley surrounding the castle of Franchimont from the Liège-Spa road. The drawing formed the basis of a gouache, pen and ink, and watercolour drawing on blue paper executed at around the same date (Tate D24732; Turner Bequest CCLIX 167).
Part of the sketch from the previous folio (Tate D28103; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 32a), which has continued onto the present sheet, can be seen at the centre of the upper register.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant View of Franchimont from the Liège-Spa Road South of the Castle 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-distant-view-of-franchimont-from-the-liege-spa-road-south-of-r1150378, accessed 25 April 2024.