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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dinant, Looking Upstream from the Eastern Bank; Bouvignes and Crèvecoeur, Looking Downstream; Distant View of Dinant, Looking Upstream 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dinant, Looking Upstream from the Eastern Bank; Bouvignes and Crèvecoeur, Looking Downstream; Distant View of Dinant, Looking Upstream’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 55 Recto:
Dinant, Looking Upstream from the Eastern Bank; Bouvignes and Crèvecoeur, Looking Downstream; Distant View of Dinant, Looking Upstream 1824
D19659
Turner Bequest CCXVI 55
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘E foreground’, ‘B’, ‘D’ centre towards bottom
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘55’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–55’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The uppermost view depicts Dinant looking upstream from the eastern bank of the Meuse, and the lowermost shows the same city from a distance. The Castle of Crèvecoeur is recorded at centre, as it overlooks the village of Bouvignes and the Church of Saint-Lambert (see also Tate D19654–D19655, D19658; Turner Bequest CCXVI 52a–53, 54a). This view is annotated with the inscriptions ‘E foreground’ (in front of the small house on the riverbank), ‘B’, for Bouvignes, and ‘D’ for Dinant.

Alice Rylance-Watson
March 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Dinant, Looking Upstream from the Eastern Bank; Bouvignes and Crèvecoeur, Looking Downstream; Distant View of Dinant, Looking Upstream 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-dinant-looking-upstream-from-the-eastern-bank-bouvignes-and-r1174447, accessed 16 April 2024.