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 The Roche à Bayard, Looking Upstream from the Dinant Road; A Belgian Woman 1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Roche à Bayard, Looking Upstream from the Dinant Road; A Belgian Woman’ 1834 (Inside back cover of sketchbook)
Inside back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover:
The Roche à Bayard, Looking Upstream from the Dinant Road; A Belgian Woman 1834
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Pencil on white wove writing paper paste-down, 154 x 94 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Yell[ow]’ | ‘Red W Black’ | ‘Yellow and Grey’ | ‘[?Brussels]’, around Belgian woman
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has sketched Dinant’s monolith, the Roche à Bayard, at the upper register of the paste-down on the inside back cover of this sketchbook. There is also a half-length profile of a Belgian woman in regional dress below it, orientated inversely to the foliation. The artist has made shorthand annotations around the figure, presumably to record the colours of her clothing. They read: ‘Yell[ow]’, ‘Red W Black’, ‘Yellow and Grey’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Roche à Bayard, Looking Upstream from the Dinant Road; A Belgian Woman 1834 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-the-roche-a-bayard-looking-upstream-from-the-dinant-road-a-r1150441, accessed 16 April 2024.