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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?River Scene at or near Ghent 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?River Scene at or near Ghent’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 165 Verso:
?River Scene at or near Ghent 1824
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Turner Bequest CCXVI 159 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘[smith &] allnut | [18]22’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Employing a sharpened pencil and agile line, Turner here records a picturesque river view, probably at or near the Flemish city of Ghent. A building with a crow-stepped gable, a characteristic feature of the architecture of the Low Countries, can be seen in the middle distance. In the foreground a canal barge and two other small vessels is moored to the banks.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘?River Scene at or near Ghent 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-scene-at-or-near-ghent-r1174668, accessed 26 April 2024.