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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Domed Building; Ghent: St Jacques' Church and Collaciezolder (or Toreken) from the Marché du Vendredi 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Domed Building; Ghent: St Jacques' Church and Collaciezolder (or Toreken) from the Marché du Vendredi’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Recto:
A Domed Building; Ghent: St Jacques' Church and Collaciezolder (or Toreken) from the Marché du Vendredi 1833
D29615
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 10
Pencil on cream wove paper, 113 x 185 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘10’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVI 10’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The principal sketch is a scene at Ghent, showing the Romanesque Church of St Jacques and the fifteenth-century Toreken, or ‘Little Tower’, which was once the premises of the tanners guild. At far left is part of a sketch of a domed building, continued from the folio opposite (Tate D29614; Turner Bequest CCXCVI 9a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘A Domed Building; Ghent: St Jacques' Church and Collaciezolder (or Toreken) from the Marché du Vendredi 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-a-domed-building-ghent-st-jacques-church-and-collaciezolder-r1202913, accessed 15 January 2025.