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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings at Louvain, Including St Peter's Church 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings at Louvain, Including St Peter's Church’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Verso:
Buildings at Louvain, Including St Peter’s Church 1839
D28063
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 11 a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 154 x 94 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘SP’ [?Saint Peter’s], ‘RI’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At the upper register of the sheet Turner has sketched the tower and cupola of St Peter’s Church with surrounding buildings. The artist has drawn the basic outline of the onion-shaped ornament atop the lantern at the top right, inscribing ‘SP’ (presumably signifying St Peter’s) next to it.
Turner has drawn other aspects of St Peter’s on the preceding and following folios (Tate D28062, D28064, Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 11, 12). For other views of Louvain in this sketchbook see Tate D28044–D28047, D28049, D28054, D28059–D28060; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 2a–3a, 4a, 7, 9a–10. There are also two drawings in gouache, pen and ink and watercolour on blue paper of the city produced in 1839 (Tate D20263, D24590; Turner Bequest CCXXII D, CCLIX 25).

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Buildings at Louvain, Including St Peter’s Church 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-buildings-at-louvain-including-st-peters-church-r1150337, accessed 21 November 2024.