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 The Church, Citadel and Bridge at Huy, Looking Upstream from the North Bank 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Church, Citadel and Bridge at Huy, Looking Upstream from the North Bank’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Recto:
The Church, Citadel and Bridge at Huy, Looking Upstream from the North Bank 1839
D28132
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 48
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 94 x 154 mm
Watermarked ‘John F[ellows] | ‘[181]0’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘350’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXVII–48’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this finely rendered sketch, Turner draws a detailed depiction of the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame at Huy from the opposite bank of the River Meuse. The view incorporates both Li Pontia, the colloquial name for Huy’s ancient arched bridge, and the city’s defensive fortress which was remodelled in 1818 under the Dutch occupation.
For other views of Huy in this sketchbook see Tate D28043, D28048, D28053, D28057, D28067, D28096, D28131, D28133–D28137, D28139–D28143, D28147, D28149; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 1a, 4, 6a, 8a, 13a, 28a, 47a, 48a–50a, 51a–53a, 56a, 57a. There are also a number of colour sketches in gouache with watercolour and pen and ink produced on blue paper dated around 1839 (Tate D20221, D20222, D20226, D20268, D20288; Turner Bequest CCXX N, O, S; CCXXII I, CCXXIII C).
For earlier views of Huy see the 1824 Huy and Dinant sketchbook (Tate D20087–D20093, D20109–D20110; Turner Bequest CCXVII 2a–6a, 16–7); the Rivers Meuse and Moselle sketchbook of the same date (Tate D19622–D19635; Turner Bequest CCXVI 36–43) and the Brussels up to Mannheim sketchbook of 1833 (Tate D29653, D29656–D29659, D29661–D29662, D29768, D29771; Turner Bequest 29, 30a–32, 33–33a, 90, 91a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Church, Citadel and Bridge at Huy, Looking Upstream from the North Bank 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-the-church-citadel-and-bridge-at-huy-looking-upstream-from-r1150406, accessed 24 April 2024.