J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
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 Castle of Crèvecoeur; The Castle of Crèvecoeur and the Church of Bouvignes, Looking Downstream from the Hillside opposite Dinant; Dinant, Looking Downstream from the Roche à Bayard 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dinant, Looking Upstream from the Castle of Crèvecoeur; The Castle of Crèvecoeur and the Church of Bouvignes, Looking Downstream from the Hillside opposite Dinant; Dinant, Looking Downstream from the Roche à Bayard’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 64 Recto:
Dinant, Looking Upstream from the Castle of Crèvecoeur; The Castle of Crèvecoeur and the Church of Bouvignes, Looking Downstream from the Hillside opposite Dinant; Dinant, Looking Downstream from the Roche à Bayard 1839
D28161
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 64
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 154 x 94 mm
Watermarked ‘[F]ellows | [18]10’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Din’ at top left, ‘Din from the rock of Bayard’ at centre, inverted
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ’350’ bottom right and ‘64’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXVII–64’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At the uppermost register Turner has produced a swift jotting of Dinant from the castle of Crèvecoeur. Dinant’s citadel can be seen atop the cliff range, shaded with light hatching. Below, and orientated inversely to the drawing above it, is a sketch of Crèvecoeur castle, followed by the spired church at Bouvignes and the Meuse valley with its grassy islets. The final sketch, also produced with the sketchbook turned upside down, is of Dinant, rendered in blunt pencil in fluid line. The lofty masts of two sailing-boats dominate the view; beyond them the Roche à Bayard, Dinant’s monolith, can be seen on the right bank. Turner has annotated the bottom of the drawing with the inscription ‘Din[ant] from the rock of Bayard’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Dinant, Looking Upstream from the Castle of Crèvecoeur; The Castle of Crèvecoeur and the Church of Bouvignes, Looking Downstream from the Hillside opposite Dinant; Dinant, Looking Downstream from the Roche à Bayard 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-castle-of-crevecoeur-the-r1150435, accessed 18 April 2024.