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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Views at Namur, Two Looking up the Meuse to the Confluence, Three Looking down the Meuse towards the Citadel, Bridge and Jambes 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views at Namur, Two Looking up the Meuse to the Confluence, Three Looking down the Meuse towards the Citadel, Bridge and Jambes’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 49 Verso:
Views at Namur, Two Looking up the Meuse to the Confluence, Three Looking down the Meuse towards the Citadel, Bridge and Jambes 1824
D19648
Turner Bequest CCXVI 49 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook turned upside down, Turner pictures a range of views of Namur using swift and summary handling. The two uppermost sketches show the point at which the Meuse and Sambre Rivers meet, overlooked by the citadel and with the district of Jambes and the Pont de Jambes to the left. The central and two lowermost sketches are taken from a vantage point in Jambes itself and thus show the opposite perspective to the upper drawings. The views look towards the confluence and feature the citadel of Namur at left and the Pont de Jambes at the foot of the ridge.
For other drawings of Namur taken in 1824 see Tate D19642–D19647, D19649–D19750, D20057, D20059, D20104–D20108; Turner Bequest CCXVI 46a–49, 50–50a, 258a–259, CCXVII 12a–15.

Alice Rylance-Watson
March 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Views at Namur, Two Looking up the Meuse to the Confluence, Three Looking down the Meuse towards the Citadel, Bridge and Jambes 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-views-at-namur-two-looking-up-the-meuse-to-the-confluence-r1174436, accessed 23 April 2024.