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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Salmon Fishing Boats at the Lorelei, Looking Upstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Salmon Fishing Boats at the Lorelei, Looking Upstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 78 Recto:
Salmon Fishing Boats at the Lorelei, Looking Upstream 1839
D28505
Turner Bequest CCXC 78
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[?Lauliberg]’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘78’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–78’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Surrounded by the vertiginous cliffs of the Rhine Gorge near the Lorelei, Turner depicts a group of salmon fishing boats with their lines cast. These boats also appear to be shown on the folio opposite (Tate D28504; Turner Bequest CCXC 77a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Salmon Fishing Boats at the Lorelei, Looking Upstream 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-salmon-fishing-boats-at-the-lorelei-looking-upstream-r1150788, accessed 23 September 2024.