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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views of the Moselle or Rhine Valley and Mountains 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Views of the Moselle or Rhine Valley and Mountains’ 1839 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Front Cover:
Two Views of the Moselle or Rhine Valley and Mountains 1839
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Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper pastedown, 163 x 100 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Bridge’, ‘Chapel’, ‘Mill’ at centre towards top and ‘All [?Light]’, ‘Mill’ at centre towards bottom
Signed and inscribed by H.S. Trimmer in black ink ‘No 338 Contains | 91 Leaves Pencil Sketches | all on both sides’ and signed in pencil by Charles Locke Eastlake ‘C.L.E.’ and by John Prescott Knight ‘JPK’ at bottom
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram at bottom left
Inscribed in pencil ‘CCXC’ at bottom left
Stamped in black ‘CCXC’ at top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has made two rough sketches of a valley with precipitous tree-lined cliffs and mountains beyond. The artist has inscribed each drawing with notes of the local architectural features at the base of the valley: they are a ‘Bridge’, a ‘Chapel’, and a ‘Mill’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Views of the Moselle or Rhine Valley and Mountains 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-two-views-of-the-moselle-or-rhine-valley-and-mountains-r1150635, accessed 26 April 2024.