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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Houses at Spa, with the Church of Saint Rémacle on the Left 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 37 Verso:
Houses at Spa, with the Church of Saint Rémacle on the Left 1839
D28113
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 37 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 wrought pencil sketch Turner depicts the local architecture in and around Spa, including the spire of the Church of Saint-Rémacle at the left. The topography of the Ardennes mountain range can be seen in the distance.
For other views of Spa in this sketchbook see Tate D28078, D28082–D28083, D28086–D28092, D28107–D28112, D28114–D28116; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 19, 21–21a, 23–26, 34a–37, 38–39a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Houses at Spa, with the Church of Saint Rémacle on the Left 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-houses-at-spa-with-the-church-of-saint-remacle-on-the-left-r1150387, accessed 28 March 2024.