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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View down the Mosel from below Oberfell 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View down the Mosel from below Oberfell’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Recto:
View down the Mosel from below Oberfell 1839
D28580
Turner Bequest CCXCI 23
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 100 x 156 mm
Watermarked ‘& c[omp]’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘23’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCI–22’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered with swift and fluid line, this slight sketch shows a view of the Moselle valley from below the village of Oberfell (Tate D28579; Turner Bequest CCXCI 22 a). See also Tate D28581; Turner Bequest CCXCI 23a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘View down the Mosel from below Oberfell 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-view-down-the-mosel-from-below-oberfell-r1150864, accessed 25 April 2024.