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Joseph Mallord William Turner List of Places on the 'Left Bank' of the Meuse (actually the East) between Dinant and Wyck 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘List of Places on the 'Left Bank' of the Meuse (actually the East) between Dinant and Wyck’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Verso:
List of Places on the ‘Left Bank’ of the Meuse (actually the East) between Dinant and Wyck 1824
D19561
Turner Bequest CCXVI 5 a
Pencil and pen and red ink on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil and pen and red ink by Turner (see main catalogue entry)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has inscribed a list of places on the ‘Left Bank’ of the Meuse from the Belgian city of Dinant to Wyck in the Netherlands. Turner’s is in fact a list of places on the right bank; those on the left are inscribed on the folio opposite (Tate D19562; Turner Bequest CCXVI 6).
The locations that this cataloguer has been able to transcribe are listed below, with an approximation of the real place names noted in brackets to the right of the transcription where necessary or possible.
‘Dinant       City [?1554] 1675 [?Chival] [...]’ | ‘Chal[...]’
‘Polvache’ ‘Goud[...] E[...]r [?oui]’ (Château de Poilvache)
‘Fournoy’           ‘Dinant to         to V[...]’
‘[?F/Tap...ppli]’ ‘[...] W[...]    183 miles’
‘[?Javieres]’ ‘Jalf[...]’ | by Land 153
‘Dave’
‘[?Frapcault]’
‘[?Lise]’ (?Lives-sur-Meuse)
‘Famson’ ‘Samson’ (Samson)
‘Thon’
‘Andenne’ ‘City of G Rethel and Con | for [...] the [L...]’
‘Huy’ ‘City [...] by W’
‘Neuville’ (Neuville-en-Condroz)
‘Pivil[...]’ (?Peville)
‘[?Siry]’ (?Seraing)
‘Chiney’ ‘[?Summer Residence] of B of Liege’ (Chênée)
‘Chartreux Con’ (Chartreuse Cornillon)
‘Jupille’ (Jupille-sur-Meuse)
‘Wandre’
‘D[...]um and Vise [...]’ (Dalhem and Vise)
‘S[?t/l]ovagne’
‘Ri[?ch]el’
‘Wyck – Sub of M’ (‘Sub[urb] of M[aastricht]’)
The dates inscribed to the right of ‘Dinant’, ‘1554’ and ‘1675’, are significant. The first of these refers to the French invasion of the Province of Namur (of which Dinant is a part) on 8 July 1554, as part of the Habsburg-Valois or Italian War of 1551 to 1559.1 The second date refers to the French occupation of the city during the Franco-Dutch War of 1672 to 1678. Dinant was controlled by the Spanish Hapsburg dynasty, but the French King Louis XIV’s expansionist ambitions led to the city’s capture by his renowned Marshal, François, Chevalier de Créquy in 1675.2

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2014

1
‘Dinant’, Eupedia, accessed 19 February 2014, http://www.eupedia.com/belgium/dinant.shtml
2
Ibid.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘List of Places on the ‘Left Bank’ of the Meuse (actually the East) between Dinant and Wyck 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-list-of-places-on-the-left-bank-of-the-meuse-actually-the-r1174349, accessed 20 May 2024.