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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ostend: Towers on Hill; Street, with Tower 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ostend: Towers on Hill; Street, with Tower’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Recto:
Ostend: Towers on Hill; Street, with Tower 1833
D29603
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 5
Pencil on cream wove paper, 185 x 113 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘5’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVI 5’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner depicts two defensive towers at Ostend: one on a hill and another on a street. Ostend came under a three-year siege between 1601 and 1604, as the United Provinces attempted to separate from the Spanish Netherlands.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Ostend: Towers on Hill; Street, with Tower 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-ostend-towers-on-hill-street-with-tower-r1202901, accessed 15 January 2025.