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 Village on the Banks of the Meuse 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Village on the Banks of the Meuse’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 46 Recto:
Village on the Banks of the Meuse 1839
D28128
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 46
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 94 x 154 mm
Watermarked ‘[F]ellows | ‘[181]0’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘350’ bottom right and ‘46’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXVII–46’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Employing a fine, deliberate line, Turner has taken a view of a village on the banks of the Meuse, nestled in a vale amongst precipitous mountain ranges. A tall towered building can be made out, perhaps a church or abbey.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Village on the Banks of the Meuse 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-village-on-the-banks-of-the-meuse-r1150402, accessed 19 April 2024.