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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Views of Castles on the Moselle 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views of Castles on the Moselle’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Recto:
Views of Castles on the Moselle 1839
D28417
Turner Bequest CCXC 34
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 163 x 100 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘34’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–34’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With swift summary line, Turner has made two sketches of the profiles of ruined castles atop a mount. Given their form they may show the Landshut at Bernkastel which is depicted elsewhere in the sketchbook (Tate D28406–D28412; Turner Bequest CCXC 28a–31a. See also the First Mossel and Oxford sketchbook belonging to the 1839 tour (Tate D28312–D28313; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 11a–12).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Views of Castles on the Moselle 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-of-castles-on-the-moselle-r1150700, accessed 18 April 2024.