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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Intermingled Views of Bernkastel and the Landshut, Two Drawn from the Hillside 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Intermingled Views of Bernkastel and the Landshut, Two Drawn from the Hillside’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Intermingled Views of Bernkastel and the Landshut, Two Drawn from the Hillside 1839
D28410
Turner Bequest CCXC 30 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 163 x 100 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page is filled with a number of sketches depicting Bernkastel and the Landshut, taken from the Moselle and two drawn from the surrounding hillside. They are slight and summary, rendered lightly with pencil at varying angles.
For other views of Bernkastel and the Landshut see Tate D28406–D28409, D28411–D28412; Turner Bequest CCXC 28a–30, 31–31a. See also the First Mossel and Oxford sketchbook belonging to the 1839 tour (Tate D28312–D28313; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 11a–12). For earlier drawings see the Rivers Meuse and Moselle sketchbook of 1824 (Tate D19757–D19760; Turner Bequest CCXVI 104–106) and the Moselle (or Rhine) sketchbook of the same date (Tate D20176–D20182, D20192; Turner Bequest CCXIX 15–21, 31).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Intermingled Views of Bernkastel and the Landshut, Two Drawn from the Hillside 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-intermingled-views-of-bernkastel-and-the-landshut-two-drawn-r1150695, accessed 19 April 2024.