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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner River View near Flône; The Abbey at Flône, Looking Downstream 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘River View near Flône; The Abbey at Flône, Looking Downstream’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Recto:
River View near Flône; The Abbey at Flône, Looking Downstream 1824
D19620
Turner Bequest CCXVI 35
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Flone’ top left
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘35’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–35’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has made two sketches of the abbey at Flône, looking downstream as he travelled towards Neuville-sous-Huy. The seventeenth-century Junction Tower and dovecote can be seen in both views. Parallel to the gutter of the book is a wide view of the Meuse showing Flône in the distance. For more drawings of Flône see Tate D19619, D19621, D19642, D20086; Turner Bequest CCXVI 34a, 35a, 46a, CCXVII 2.

Alice Rylance-Watson
March 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘River View near Flône; The Abbey at Flône, Looking Downstream 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-river-view-near-flone-the-abbey-at-flone-looking-downstream-r1174408, accessed 19 September 2024.