Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Pair of Ferry-Towers on the Moselle at, and opposite to, Schweich with the Ferry in Mid-River; Distant Hills

1839

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: First Mossel and Oxford Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 140 × 235 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D28346
Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 28 a

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Running parallel to the long top outer-edge of the sketchbook is a very rough and loosely rendered view of hills in the Moselle valley. Beneath it, and orientated inversely, are two towers situated at and opposite to the village of Schweich. These are medieval Fährturme or Ferry Towers used as a form of harbour for the local ferry service which ran from Trier to Koblenz.1 See also Tate D28335; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 23.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

Cecilia Powell, Turner’s Rivers of Europe: The Rhine, Meuse and Mosel, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1991, Appendix p.219

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