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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Meuse South of Dinant; A Thistle; Three Women in a Boat Washing 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Meuse South of Dinant; A Thistle; Three Women in a Boat Washing’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Verso:
The Meuse South of Dinant; A Thistle; Three Women in a Boat Washing 1839
D28168
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 1 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 168 x 101 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At the upper register Turner has made a rough linear sketch of the Meuse south of Dinant. Below is a thistle, probably encountered on a sketching excursion in the hilly river valley, and to the right, three women washing in a small boat. Part of the sketch of a rocky cliff range and valley has been continued onto the page from the folio opposite (Tate D28169; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 2).

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Meuse South of Dinant; A Thistle; Three Women in a Boat Washing 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-the-meuse-south-of-dinant-a-thistle-three-women-in-a-boat-r1150445, accessed 26 April 2024.