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, with the Church of Saint Rémacle 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Spa, with the Church of Saint Rémacle’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Verso:
Spa, with the Church of Saint Rémacle 1839
D28116
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 39 a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 94 x 154 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘4’, ‘5’, ‘3’, ‘4’ against architectural features
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Placing himself at the centre of Spa, Turner depicts the tower and spire of the Church of Saint-Rémacle surrounded by local architecture. The numbers ‘4’, ‘5’, ‘3’, ‘4’ have been inscribed against some of these buildings.
For other views of Spa in this sketchbook see Tate D28078, D28082–D28083, D28086–D28092, D28107–D28115; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 19, 21–21a, 23–26, 34a–39.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Spa, with the Church of Saint Rémacle 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-spa-with-the-church-of-saint-remacle-r1150390, accessed 18 September 2024.