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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ghent: St Bavo's Cathedral and Belfry; A Domed Building 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ghent: St Bavo's Cathedral and Belfry; A Domed Building’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Verso:
Ghent: St Bavo's Cathedral and Belfry; A Domed Building 1833
D29614
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 9a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 185 x 113 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘81’ bottom left (inversely)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Ghent’s Cathedral of St Bavo and belfry is depicted here, above a sketch of a domed building at rear (continued onto the folio opposite, Tate D29615; Turner Bequest CCXCVI 10). See also Tate D29615–D29617; Turner Bequest CCXCVI 10–11.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Ghent: St Bavo's Cathedral and Belfry; A Domed Building 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-ghent-st-bavos-cathedral-and-belfry-a-domed-building-r1202912, accessed 22 July 2024.