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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Namur: The Citadel 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Namur: The Citadel’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 79 Verso:
Namur: The Citadel 1833
D29749
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 78a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 113 x 185 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘12’ bottom left (inversely)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned upside down relative to the foliation, Turner depicts Namur’s citadel with the Meuse valley beyond (see Tate D29620; Turner Bequest CCXCVI 12a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Namur: The Citadel 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-namur-the-citadel-r1203047, accessed 05 April 2026.