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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Hills of the Moselle Valley 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hills of the Moselle Valley’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Recto:
Hills of the Moselle Valley 1839
D28397
Turner Bequest CCXC 24
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Lutzig B’ top left
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘24’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–24’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With loose and fluid line Turner has roughly rendered the hillsides around the Moselle Valley.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Hills of the Moselle Valley 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-hills-of-the-moselle-valley-r1150682, accessed 24 April 2024.