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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Views near Trarbach 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views near Trarbach’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Verso:
Views near Trarbach 1839
D28402
Turner Bequest CCXC 26 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 163 x 100 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has filled the page with slight and swiftly rendered sketches of the landscape around Trarbach, all inversely orientated to the foliation. A tower, a likely part of the defensive structures built to protect Traben and Trarbach, is a repeated subject in these drawings, as is the spired church.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Views near Trarbach 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-views-near-trarbach-r1150687, accessed 25 April 2024.