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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Moselle Valley between the Marienburg and Montroyal 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Moselle Valley between the Marienburg and Montroyal’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Recto:
The Moselle Valley between the Marienburg and Montroyal 1839
D28387
Turner Bequest CCXC 19
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 163 x 100 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Road’ (inverted) centre right
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘19’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–19’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These loose and quick sketches depict the Moselle Valley running between the Marienburg at Zell and the ruined fortress of Montroyal at Traben-Trarbach. . All have been executed with the sketchbook orientated upside down and all extend to the folio opposite (Tate D28386; Turner Bequest CCXC 18 a). The central sketch shows the village of Burg, its chapel drawn on the opposite folio. Turner has inscribed ‘Road’ at the far left of this sketch.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Moselle Valley between the Marienburg and Montroyal 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-the-moselle-valley-between-the-marienburg-and-montroyal-r1150672, accessed 26 April 2024.