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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Namur: The Citadel from the Liège Road 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Namur: The Citadel from the Liège Road’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Recto:
Namur: The Citadel from the Liège Road 1833
D29621
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 13
Pencil on cream wove paper, 113 x 185 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘13’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVI 13’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner depicts the Walloon city of Namur from the Liège Road. This elevated vantage point offered the artist a fuller view of Namur’s extensive citadel, built in stages from the seventeenth century.
For other views of Namur in this sketchbook see Tate D29620–D29623, D29627–D29631, D29633–D29642, D29647, D29751; Turner Bequest CCXCVI 12a–14, 16–18, 19–23a, 30. For earlier views, taken in 1824, see Tate D20104–D20108; Turner Bequest CCXVII 12a–15; for later, see Tate D28042, D28065, D28069, D28118, D28120–D28121, D28123, D28125–D28127, D28151–D28152.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Namur: The Citadel from the Liège Road 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-namur-the-citadel-from-the-liege-road-r1202919, accessed 22 July 2024.