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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Huy from the Hillside to the South-East 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Huy from the Hillside to the South-East’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Verso:
Huy from the Hillside to the South-East 1839
D28057
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 8 a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 94 x 154 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This panoramic sketch has been taken from a south-easterly viewpoint overlooking the town of Huy and its surrounding countryside. It formed the basis for a gouache, pen and ink and watercolour drawing on blue paper of the same subject (Tate D20226; Turner Bequest CCXX S). Turner has delineated the nineteenth-century defensive fortress atop the crest of the central valley wall and summarily suggested the contours of the topography around it.
A similar view of Huy taken from the south-east is on the verso of folio 50 of this sketchbook (Tate D28137; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 50 a) and also corresponds to a gouache, pen and ink and watercolour drawing (Tate D20221; Turner Bequest CCXX N).

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Huy from the Hillside to the South-East 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-huy-from-the-hillside-to-the-south-east-r1150331, accessed 24 November 2024.