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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner Boats with Figures ?on the Moselle 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Boats with Figures ?on the Moselle’ 1839 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Front Cover:
Boats with Figures ?on the Moselle 1839
D41092
Pencil on white wove drawing paper, 235 x 140 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has made two slight sketches of figures in sailing boats laden with cargo. The river is probably the Moselle.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Boats with Figures ?on the Moselle 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-boats-with-figures-on-the-moselle-r1150571, accessed 12 July 2026.