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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Seven Sketches of the Moselle between Mehring and Detzem 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Seven Sketches of the Moselle between Mehring and Detzem’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 102 Recto:
Seven Sketches of the Moselle between Mehring and Detzem 1824
D19750
Turner Bequest CCXVI 101
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘ES’; ‘E’; ‘Pigs’; ‘ENN’ | ‘[...]zin’; ‘Polli’; ‘SW’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘101’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–101’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this series of seven sketches Turner depicts the Moselle valley between Mehring (Tate D19749; Turner Bequest CCXVI 100a) and Detzem, including Pölich (inscribed as Polli). The capital letters ‘N’, ‘E’, and ‘S’ stand for the four cardinal points and indicate that Turner was taking regular compass bearings as he travelled.1 These sketches were taken as Turner made his way from Trier towards Neumagen on 29 August 1824.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

1
Powell 1995, p.106 no.21.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Seven Sketches of the Moselle between Mehring and Detzem 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-of-the-moselle-between-mehring-and-detzem-r1174541, accessed 01 April 2026.