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 Seated Women and Standing Soldiers; Distant View of Dinant, Looking Upstream; Distant View of Huy from the North 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Seated Women and Standing Soldiers; Distant View of Dinant, Looking Upstream; Distant View of Huy from the North’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 53 Recto:
Seated Women and Standing Soldiers; Distant View of Dinant, Looking Upstream; Distant View of Huy from the North 1839
D28142
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 53
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 154 x 94 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Din’ (Dinant) centre towards bottom left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘350’ bottom right and ‘53’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXVII–53’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
On the upper register Turner has made a rough and swiftly wrought jotting of figures: a seated woman and a couple of soldiers in uniform. Below is a diminutive view of Dinant, labelled as such with the inscription ‘Din’. At the lowermost register Turner has depicted Huy taken from a northerly axis, according to Cecilia Powell.1

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

1
Powell 1991, Appendix, p.215.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Seated Women and Standing Soldiers; Distant View of Dinant, Looking Upstream; Distant View of Huy from the North 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-seated-women-and-standing-soldiers-distant-view-of-dinant-r1150416, accessed 23 April 2024.