
In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Gouache, pen and ink and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 140 × 190 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D20249
Turner Bequest CCXXI P
Display caption
As a result of his travels in 1839 Turner painted a series of over a hundred small gouache scenes, not only of the Meuse and Mosel but also of other notable sights in Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. These were not drawn on the spot, directly from nature, but at Turner’s leisure, based on the pencil sketches gathered in his sketchbooks. They were executed on small pieces of blue paper, about the size shown here (roughly
14 x 19 cm), which he created by folding large sheets and then tearing or cutting them into sixteen.
Gallery label, September 2004
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