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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Namur: View Across the Sambre, Looking Up to the Citadel; Namur: St‑Aubin and Other Buildings 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Namur: View Across the Sambre, Looking Up to the Citadel; Namur: St‑Aubin and Other Buildings’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
Namur: View Across the Sambre, Looking Up to the Citadel; Namur: St‑Aubin and Other Buildings 1833
D29623
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 14
Pencil on cream wove paper, 113 x 185 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘14’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVI 14’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Namur is part of one panoramic prospect which continues onto the folio opposite (Tate D29622; Turner Bequest CCXCVI 13a). It shows the historic city centre at left, with the Church of Saint John the Baptist. To the right is Namur’s citadel.
Turner has also rendered a rough profile of the city in the sky above.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Namur: View Across the Sambre, Looking Up to the Citadel; Namur: St‑Aubin and Other Buildings 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-view-across-the-sambre-looking-up-to-the-citadel-namur-r1202921, accessed 22 July 2024.