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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839 > Spa, Dinant and Namur Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Quay and Citadel at Huy, Looking Upstream from the North Bank above the Bridge near the Maison de Batta 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Quay and Citadel at Huy, Looking Upstream from the North Bank above the Bridge near the Maison de Batta’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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The Quay and Citadel at Huy, Looking Upstream from the North Bank above the Bridge near the Maison de Batta 1839
D28053
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 6 a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 94 x 154 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this relatively detailed sketch Turner depicts the defensive fortress at Huy atop the crest of the Meuse valley ridge. Built in 1818 by the Dutch during their occupation of the town, the artist captures its stolid and dominating architectural presence. Beneath it, diminutive in comparison, is an array of local houses and buildings.
For other views of Huy in this sketchbook see Tate D28043, D28057, D28067, D28096, D28131–D28137, D28139–D28143, D28147, D28149; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 1a, 8a, 13a, 28a, 47a–50a, 51a–53a, 56a, 57a. There are also a number of colour sketches in gouache with watercolour and pen and ink produced on blue paper dated around 1839 (Tate D20221, D20222, D20226, D20268, D20288; Turner Bequest CCXX N, O, S; CCXXII I, CCXXIII C).
For earlier views of Huy see the 1824 Huy and Dinant sketchbook (Tate D20087–D20093, D20109–D20110; Turner Bequest CCXVII 2a–6a, 16–7); the Rivers Meuse and Moselle sketchbook of the same date (Tate D19622–D19635; Turner Bequest CCXVI 36–43) and the Brussels up to Mannheim sketchbook of 1833 (Tate D29653, D29656–D29659, D29661–D29662, D29768, D29771; Turner Bequest 29, 30a–32, 33–33a, 90, 91a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Quay and Citadel at Huy, Looking Upstream from the North Bank above the Bridge near the Maison de Batta 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-the-quay-and-citadel-at-huy-looking-upstream-from-the-north-r1150327, accessed 24 November 2024.