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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Neumagen and the Moselle Valley 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Neumagen and the Moselle Valley’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Recto:
Neumagen and the Moselle Valley 1839
D28425
Turner Bequest CCXC 38
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 163 x 100 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[?D...gn]’ centre; ‘Numegen’ bottom right
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘38’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–38’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These quick and summary sketches depict the landscape around Neumagen, situated between Piesport and Trittenheim on the Moselle. A spired chapel is repeated in each of the four sketches, surrounded by rolling hills.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Neumagen and 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-neumagen-and-the-moselle-valley-r1150708, accessed 24 April 2024.