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 Downstream from just above the Bridge 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dinant, Looking Downstream from just above the Bridge’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 65 Recto:
Dinant, Looking Downstream from just above the Bridge 1839
D28163
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 65
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 94 x 154 mm
Watermarked ‘[F]ellows | [18]10’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Timbre’ bottom left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘350’ bottom right and ‘65’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXVII–65’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this sketch, taken from the west bank of the Meuse, Turner depicts the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame, the ancient arched bridge, and the citadel at Dinant. For other views of the city in this sketchbook see Tate D28042, D28094, D28122, D28125, D28142, D28147, D28153, D28155–D28158, D28160–D28162, D28164–D28166; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 1, 27a, 42a, 44a, 53, 56a, 59a, 60a–62a, 63a–64a, 65a–66a.
For earlier views of Dinant taken in 1824, see Tate D19556–D19663, D20109–D20113; Turner Bequest CCXVI 53a–57, CCXVII 16–19.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Dinant, Looking Downstream from just above the Bridge 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-downstream-from-just-above-the-bridge-r1150437, accessed 26 April 2024.