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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bruges: The Hôtel de Ville, Palais du Franc and Belfry from the Quai Vert 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bruges: The Hôtel de Ville, Palais du Franc and Belfry from the Quai Vert’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Verso:
Bruges: The Hôtel de Ville, Palais du Franc and Belfry from the Quai Vert 1833
D29610
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 7a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 113 x 185 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Ston Hoven | dyk’ bottom left
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘83’ bottom left (inversely)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Taken from the Quai Vert (Groenerei canal), this sketch shows Bruges’ Hôtel de Ville (Stadhuis) and the Palais du Franc (Palace of the Brugse Vrije). The Belfry can be seen in the middle distance at right. Turner has inscribed ‘Ston Hoven | dyk’ at bottom left.
For other drawings of Bruges see Tate D12705–D12713, D19268, D19272–D19278; Turner Bequest CLX 2v–7a, CCXIV 216, 218–221.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Bruges: The Hôtel de Ville, Palais du Franc and Belfry from the Quai Vert 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-bruges-the-hotel-de-ville-palais-du-franc-and-belfry-from-r1202908, accessed 15 January 2025.