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 Distant View of Huy from the South-East 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Huy from the South-East’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 53 Verso:
Distant View of Huy from the South-East 1839
D28143
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 53 a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 94 x 154 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Meuse’ at right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has taken a view of Huy from a south-easterly viewpoint. The handling is rapid and abbreviated, marking out the generalities of the topography in quick linear notations. The buildings in this sketch were incorporated into the foreground of a gouache, pen and ink and watercolour drawing (Tate D20221; Turner Bequest CCXX N).
For other views of Huy in this sketchbook see Tate D28043, D28048, D28053, D28057, D28067, D28096, D28131–D28137, D28139–D28142, D28147, D28149; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 1a, 4, 6a, 8a, 13a, 28a, 47a–50a, 51a–52a, 56a, 57a. 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, ‘Distant View of Huy from the South-East 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-distant-view-of-huy-from-the-south-east-r1150417, accessed 19 April 2024.