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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Views near Dinant 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views near Dinant’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Verso:
Views near Dinant 1824
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Turner Bequest CCXVI 56 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Watermark ‘smith & [allnut] | 18[22]’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘River Lesse’ top right, ‘Women washing’ | ‘River Lesse’ right centre towards top; ‘Onhaye’ centre left; ‘Blue’ far left centre; ‘Meuse’ centre towards bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These slight and swiftly rendered sketches show the villages of Onhaye and Anseremme, south of Dinant. The two uppermost drawings depict the Lesse, a river which flows into the Meuse between Anseremme and Forges opposite the Île de Moniat. A bridge crosses the Lesse and women wash at its banks; Onhaye, meanwhile, is pictured at a distance in the central sketch.

Alice Rylance-Watson
March 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Views near Dinant 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-near-dinant-r1174450, accessed 24 April 2024.