Gouache and watercolour on paper
Meuse-Moselle Gouache and Watercolour Drawings
Meuse-Moselle Gouache and Watercolour Drawings
The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839
The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839
Belgium
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Rocks on Meuse at MarchelesDames
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
Belgium
boat - non-specific
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
cliff
countries and continents
industrial
landscape
Marche-les-Dames
natural features (non-UK)
places
river
River Meuse
society
townscapes / man-made features
transport: water
village
water: inland
watermill
<p>The romantic name of Marche-les-Dames (no.91) derives from the foundation of a twelfth-century abbey in an adjacent side-valley by 139 noble ladies who were the widows of Crusaders. Turner has used gouache, lightly applied with a brush, rather than pen and ink, to show both the characteristic fissures in the oolitic cliffs above the village and all the details of both buildings and the riverside. The resulting criss-cross effect is unusual but the pinkness of his rocks here is similar to that in other scenes on both the Meuse (no.92) and the Mosel (no.49).</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique gouache watercolour
8 September 2001 – 28 October 2001
2001-10-28
8 September 2001 – 28 October 2001
2001-10-28
2001-09-08
Maison de la Culture (Namur, Belgium)
2001-09-08
The Meuse from Turner to Delvaux
Loan-out
Rocks on the Meuse at Marche-les-Dames
support: 137 × 189 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>The romantic name of Marche-les-Dames (no.91) derives from the foundation of a twelfth-century abbey in an adjacent side-valley by 139 noble ladies who were the widows of Crusaders. Turner has used <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/g/gouache" title="Glossary definition for 'Gouache'"><span>gouache</span></a>, lightly applied with a brush, rather than <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/pen-and-ink" title="Glossary definition for 'Pen and Ink'"><span>pen and ink</span></a>, to show both the characteristic fissures in the oolitic cliffs above the village and all the details of both buildings and the riverside. The resulting criss-cross effect is unusual but the pinkness of his rocks here is similar to that in other scenes on both the Meuse (no.92) and the Mosel (no.49).</p>
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architecture Belgium boat - non-specific cities, towns, villages (non-UK) cliff countries and continents industrial landscape Marche-les-Dames natural features (non-UK) places river River Meuse society townscapes / man-made features transport: water village water: inland watermill
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