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 Dinant, Looking Upstream from the Hillside Opposite 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dinant, Looking Upstream from the Hillside Opposite’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 62 Recto:
Dinant, Looking Upstream from the Hillside Opposite 1839
D28157
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 62
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 94 x 154 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘350’ bottom right and ‘62’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXVII–62’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this detailed and carefully worked drawing Turner depicts Dinant from a north-westerly perspective, incorporating its principal monuments: the citadel, the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame, and the arched bridge. This drawing formed the basis of a gouache, pen and ink and watercolour drawing held at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.1

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.421 no.1026.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Dinant, Looking Upstream from the Hillside Opposite 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-dinant-looking-upstream-from-the-hillside-opposite-r1150431, accessed 16 April 2024.