Joseph Mallord William Turner

Views of Castles on the Moselle

1839

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Trèves to Cochem and Coblenz to Mayence Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 163 × 100 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D28417
Turner Bequest CCXC 34

Catalogue entry

With swift summary line, Turner has made two sketches of the profiles of ruined castles atop a mount. Given their form they may show the Landshut at Bernkastel which is depicted elsewhere in the sketchbook (Tate D28406–D28412; Turner Bequest CCXC 28a–31a. See also the First Mossel and Oxford sketchbook belonging to the 1839 tour (Tate D28312–D28313; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 11a–12).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

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