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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The West Choir and Towers of Trier Cathedral and the Adjacent Liebfrauenkirche 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The West Choir and Towers of Trier Cathedral and the Adjacent Liebfrauenkirche’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Recto:
The West Choir and Towers of Trier Cathedral and the Adjacent Liebfrauenkirche 1839
D28253
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 48
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 168 x 101 mm
Partial Pro Patria watermark ``
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘48’ bottom right
Stamped in black ink ‘CCLXXXVIII–48’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch, depicting the west choir and towers of the Romanesque Cathedral of St Peter and the Liebfrauenkirche (Church of our Lady) at Trier, is a continuation of the drawing on the folio opposite (Tate D28252; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 47a). It is orientated inversely relative to the foliation.
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Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The West Choir and Towers of Trier Cathedral and the Adjacent Liebfrauenkirche 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-the-west-choir-and-towers-of-trier-cathedral-and-the-r1150530, accessed 23 April 2024.