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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Quayside View at Liège, with the Pont des Arches and Figures 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Quayside View at Liège, with the Pont des Arches and Figures’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 269 Recto:
Quayside View at Liège, with the Pont des Arches and Figures 1824
D20064
Turner Bequest CCXVI 262
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘[smith &] allnut | [18]22’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘262’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–262’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This swiftly dashed off view shows the quayside at Liège, Belgium, on the banks of the river Meuse. At left Turner has sketched a few figures going about their daily business, chatting, transacting, walking to and fro. The Pont des Arches, the city’s ancient stone bridge, is directly behind them and on the high ridge at left stands Liège Citadel. A separate sketch of the Pont des Arches has been drawn above the main view across the uppermost register. For other views of Liège see Tate D19598–D19599, D20060–D20063, D20095–D20099, D20105, D28066; Turner Bequest Turner Bequest CCXVI 24–24a, 260–261a, CCXVII 8–10, 13, CCLXVIII 13.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Quayside View at Liège, with the Pont des Arches and Figures 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-quayside-view-at-liege-with-the-pont-des-arches-and-figures-r1174859, accessed 25 April 2024.