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 Old Houses and Bridges over a Stream at Spa 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Old Houses and Bridges over a Stream at Spa’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 37 Recto:
Old Houses and Bridges over a Stream at Spa 1839
D28112
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 37
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 94 x 154 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘350’ bottom right and ‘37’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXVII–37’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Swiftly rendered in blunt pencil, Turner depicts what appear to be the same houses lining the left and right banks of a stream at Spa as in the previous folio (Tate D28111; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 36a). Two bridges are in view here; shrubs or figures are suggested by a few looped lines in the foreground.
For other views of Spa in this sketchbook see Tate D28078, D28082–D28083, D28086–D28092, D28107–D28110, D28113–D28116; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 19, 21–21a, 23–26, 34a–36a, 37a–39a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Old Houses and Bridges over a Stream at Spa 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-old-houses-and-bridges-over-a-stream-at-spa-r1150386, accessed 27 April 2024.