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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839 > Trèves to Cochem and Coblenz to Mayence ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Moselle Views ?possibly Breidel 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Moselle Views ?possibly Breidel’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Recto:
Four Moselle Views ?possibly Breidel 1839
D28381
Turner Bequest CCXC 16
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 163 x 100 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[B?...]’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘16’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–16’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered with rough and gestural handling in blunt pencil, these landscape sketches are likely to depict locations on the Moselle or Rhine Rivers. The inverted drawing of a spired church has an inscription next to it which Cecilia Powell suggests could read ‘Brilil’, an approximation of ‘Briedel’.1 There is a spired church depicted very basically in profile on the following folio (Tate D28382; Turner Bequest CCXC 16 a) and next to which Turner has inscribed ‘Bridel’. This may be the same church represented on the present folio.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

1
Powell 1991, Appendix p.221

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Four Moselle Views ?possibly Breidel 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-four-moselle-views-possibly-breidel-r1150666, accessed 20 April 2024.