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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner Utrecht: The Domtoren, Buurkerk and Janskerk from the River Vecht 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Utrecht: The Domtoren, Buurkerk and Janskerk from the River Vecht’ 1817
Folio 66 Verso:
Utrecht: The Domtoren, Buurkerk and Janskerk from the River Vecht 1817
D13124
Turner Bequest CLXII 67a
Pencil on ‘blue’ laid writing paper, 93 x 156 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Bay’, bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Utrecht in this sketchbook see under folio 22 verso (D13038). Here, with the page turned horizontally, the Domtoren (the tower of St Martin’s Cathedral), and the Buurkerk are depicted on the east side of the River Vecht. In the distance is the spire of the Janskerk.

Quirine van der Meer Mohr
December 2013

Revised by David Blayney Brown
September 2025

How to cite

Quirine van der Meer Mohr, ‘Utrecht: The Domtoren, Buurkerk and Janskerk from the River Vecht 1817’, catalogue entry, December 2013, revised by David Blayney Brown, September 2025, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, June 2026, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/utrecht-the-domtoren-buurkerk-and-janskerk-from-the-river-vecht-r1212497, accessed 01 August 2026.