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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bruges: The Belfry 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bruges: The Belfry’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Recto:
Bruges: The Belfry 1833
D29605
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 6
Pencil on cream wove paper, 113 x 185 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘6’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVI 6’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch was taken in Bruges’ central market and shows the Belfry with a statue in the foreground.
For other drawings of Bruges see Tate D12705–D12713, D19268, D19272–D19278; Turner Bequest CLX 2v–7a, CCXIV 216, 218–221.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Bruges: The Belfry 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-bruges-the-belfry-r1202903, accessed 22 July 2024.