Gouache, pen and ink 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>
Namur Fields
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
Belgium
bridge
bridges and viaducts
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
features
field
fortification
hill
landscape
military
Namur - non-specific
places
river
rocky
tower
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
water: inland
<p>Turner's use of pen and ink in these two drawings is characteristic of his Belgian scenes as a whole, but their muted twilight colouring is close to that in several of those showing the Mosel including no.48 depicting Trier and no.52 of Bernkastel. In no.94 Turner achieves a balance between the Meuse and the very much smaller Sambre by putting the more important river into shadow and bathing the right-hand side of his scene in golden light. In no.93, however, neither river is visible, their confluence occurring just beyond the left-hand edge of the drawing, but the tiny stream in the foreground suggests their unseen presence.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique gouache pen ink 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
Namur from the Fields
support: 141 × 192 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>Turner's use of <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> in these two <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> is characteristic of his Belgian scenes as a whole, but their muted twilight colouring is close to that in several of those showing the Mosel including no.48 depicting Trier and no.52 of Bernkastel. In no.94 Turner achieves a balance between the Meuse and the very much smaller Sambre by putting the more important river into shadow and bathing the right-hand side of his scene in golden light. In no.93, however, neither river is visible, their confluence occurring just beyond the left-hand edge of the drawing, but the tiny stream in the foreground suggests their unseen presence.</p>
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architecture Belgium bridge bridges and viaducts cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents features field fortification hill landscape military Namur - non-specific places river rocky tower townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features water: inland
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