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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bruges: The Rue des Pierres with the Belfry and St Saviour's Church 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bruges: The Rue des Pierres with the Belfry and St Saviour's Church’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Bruges: The Rue des Pierres with the Belfry and St Saviour's Church 1833
D29604
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 5a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 113 x 185 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘85’ bottom left (inversely)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Bruges, drawn with the sketchbook turned upside down, shows the Rue des Pierres with St Saviour’s Cathedral in the foreground and the Belfry in the distance at 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 Rue des Pierres with the Belfry and St Saviour's Church 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-rue-des-pierres-with-the-belfry-and-st-saviours-r1202902, accessed 22 July 2024.