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 Three Moselle Views, Perhaps of Enkirch 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Moselle Views, Perhaps of Enkirch’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Recto:
Three Moselle Views, Perhaps of Enkirch 1839
D28415
Turner Bequest CCXC 33
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 163 x 100 mm
Inscribed by Turner ‘Enkirch up [to] Trabach’ (inverted) bottom
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘33’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–33’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook turned upside down, Turner’s sketches depict a riverside scene in the Moselle Valley inscribed ‘Enkirch up [to] Trarbach’; a group of houses; and what appear to be similar houses with turrets and gabled roofs in a township below.
Technical notes:
Folio 32 is missing and has been replaced with a blank page inserted between the present folio and Tate D28412; Turner Bequest CCXC 31 a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Three Moselle Views, Perhaps of Enkirch 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-three-moselle-views-perhaps-of-enkirch-r1150698, accessed 26 September 2024.