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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Nehren and Senheim, Looking Downstream; The Lehmener Tower, Nehren; Ediger 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Nehren and Senheim, Looking Downstream; The Lehmener Tower, Nehren; Ediger’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Recto:
Nehren and Senheim, Looking Downstream; The Lehmener Tower, Nehren; Ediger 1839
D28371
Turner Bequest CCXC 11
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 163 x 100 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Naren’ top left, ‘Sin[?ime]’ top right; ‘askerf’ centre right (inverted)
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘11’ top right, ‘338’ bottom right (crossed out with single black ink line), ‘201’ bottom right ascending towards centre
Inscribed in black ink ‘201’ possibly by Ruskin bottom right ascending
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–11’ bottom right
Inscribed in red ink ‘63’ (encircled by a single line) bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The sketch on the upper register shows the neighbouring villages of Nehren and Senheim, located on the banks of the Moselle. It has been inscribed by Turner with his approximation of the villages’ names: ‘Naren’ and ‘Sin[?ime]’. Below, and drawn inversely to the previous sketch, is the Romanesque Lehmener Tower which extends onto the folio opposite (Tate D28370; Turner Bequest CCXC 10 a) and the village of Ediger surrounded by the Moselle Valley mountain range.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Nehren and Senheim, Looking Downstream; The Lehmener Tower, Nehren; Ediger 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-nehren-and-senheim-looking-downstream-the-lehmener-tower-r1150656, accessed 11 May 2024.