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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Seven Sketches near Treis, the Last Four Showing Burg Treis 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Seven Sketches near Treis, the Last Four Showing Burg Treis’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 126 Verso:
Seven Sketches near Treis, the Last Four Showing Burg Treis 1824
D19799
Turner Bequest CCXVI 124 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Treis’ top centre; ‘Mending a Wall’ centre towards right; ‘Beautiful [...] B T | Light Grey’ centre right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This series of seven finely executed views depicts the Moselle valley near Treis and its ancient feudal castle. Turner records two figures towards top right, apparently in the process of ‘mending a wall’, and notes that the colour of the Burg Treis (‘B T’) is a ‘Beautiful... Light Grey’.
Treis is shown again on Tate D19800, D19801, D20233, D24735, D28315, D28354, D28355, D28557, D28998; Turner Bequest CCXVI 125, 125v, CCXX Z, CCLIX 170, CCLXXXIX 13, CCXCI 9a, 10, 11, CCXCII 50.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Seven Sketches near Treis, the Last Four Showing Burg Treis 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-seven-sketches-near-treis-the-last-four-showing-burg-treis-r1174590, accessed 11 May 2024.