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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Southern Part of Trier from the Moselle, Looking Upstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Southern Part of Trier from the Moselle, Looking Upstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Recto:
The Southern Part of Trier from the Moselle, Looking Upstream 1839
D28260
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 52
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
Partial Pro Patria watermark
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘52’ bottom right
Stamped in black ink ‘CCLXXXVIII–52’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this summary and slight drawing Turner has pictured the southern part of Trier from the Moselle, at a closer proximity to the Römerbrücke (Roman bridge). This sketch, along with Tate D28258– D28259; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 51–51a formed the basis of a gouache and watercolour drawing on blue paper of c.1839 (Tate D24715; Turner Bequest CCLIX 150). Other views taken from the Pallien hillsides in this sketchbook include Tate D28246, D28255–D28259; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 43a, 49a–51a. See also the Trèves and Rhine sketchbook of 1824 (Tate D20150; Turner Bequest CCXVIII 12).
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Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Southern Part of Trier from the Moselle, Looking Upstream 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-southern-part-of-trier-from-the-moselle-looking-upstream-r1150537, accessed 24 April 2024.