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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bruges: The Belfry, Chapel of the Holy Blood and Hôtel de Ville from the Quai du Rosaire 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bruges: The Belfry, Chapel of the Holy Blood and Hôtel de Ville from the Quai du Rosaire’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Recto:
Bruges: The Belfry, Chapel of the Holy Blood and Hôtel de Ville from the Quai du Rosaire 1833
D29609
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 7
Pencil on cream wove paper, 113 x 185 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘7’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVI 7’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned upside town, Turner depicts a scene at Bruges from the Quai du Rosaire (Rozenhoedkaai). The Belfry and Basillica of the Holy Blood can be seen at left, while the Hôtel de Ville (Stadhuis) is visible at right.
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, Chapel of the Holy Blood and Hôtel de Ville from the Quai du Rosaire 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-chapel-of-the-holy-blood-and-hotel-de-r1202907, accessed 15 January 2025.