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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Continuation of The Citadel, Church and Bridge at Huy, Looking Upstream from the South Bank of the Meuse with Part of the Ruined Town Walls 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Continuation of The Citadel, Church and Bridge at Huy, Looking Upstream from the South Bank of the Meuse with Part of the Ruined Town Walls’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Verso:
Continuation of The Citadel, Church and Bridge at Huy, Looking Upstream from the South Bank of the Meuse with Part of the Ruined Town Walls 1824
D41007
Turner Bequest
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 162 mm
Watermark ‘[...]lls | 1[...]’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘?Way’ far right centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sheet is blank, with the exception of an inscription by Turner which reads ‘?Way’, likely the artist’s spelling of ‘Huy’ which is pronounced ‘wee’. Above the inscription is part of a view of Huy continued from the folio opposite (Tate D20092; Turner Bequest CCXVII 6).

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Continuation of The Citadel, Church and Bridge at Huy, Looking Upstream from the South Bank of the Meuse with Part of the Ruined Town Walls 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-continuation-of-the-citadel-church-and-bridge-at-huy-looking-r1174287, accessed 23 November 2024.