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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Overlapping Views of the Moselle Valley 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Overlapping Views of the Moselle Valley’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Verso:
Overlapping Views of the Moselle Valley 1839
D28418
Turner Bequest CCXC 34 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 163 x 100 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘6’ (inverted) bottom left; ‘[lw f...]’ | ‘[?Reflective ... Light] (inverted) centre towards bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These very roughly rendered sketches, drawn with the book orientated at various angles, depict scenes from the Moselle Valley and castles and fortresses. Turner has inscribed what appears to be a note on the atmospheric effects encountered at a particular moment, writing ‘[Reflective... Light]’ near one of the sketches.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Overlapping Views of the Moselle Valley 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-overlapping-views-of-the-moselle-valley-r1150701, accessed 20 September 2024.