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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Namur: The Citadel from the Sambre, Showing the Rampe Verte (1815‑30) to the Terra Nova 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Namur: The Citadel from the Sambre, Showing the Rampe Verte (1815‑30) to the Terra Nova’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Verso:
Namur: The Citadel from the Sambre, Showing the Rampe Verte (1815‑30) to the Terra Nova 1833
D29620
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 12 a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 113 x 185 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘78’ bottom left (inversely)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch shows the fortified Belgian town of Namur, situated at the confluence of the Sambre and Meuse. Here Turner depicts Namur citadel from the Sambre, with the seventeenth-century Terra Nova barracks and the diagonal ‘rampe verte’, a walkway leading from the Sambre up the cliff to the citadel complex.
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 Sambre, Showing the Rampe Verte (1815‑30) to the Terra Nova 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-sambre-showing-the-rampe-verte-r1202918, accessed 15 January 2025.