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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Moselle Bridge at Coblenz, Looking from the Rhine towards the Buildings of the Moselle Waterfront and the Petersberg 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Moselle Bridge at Coblenz, Looking from the Rhine towards the Buildings of the Moselle Waterfront and the Petersberg’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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The Moselle Bridge at Coblenz, Looking from the Rhine towards the Buildings of the Moselle Waterfront and the Petersberg 1839
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Turner Bequest CCXC 87 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough sketch rendered in bold line depicts the city of Koblenz with the bridge traversing the Moselle River.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Moselle Bridge at Coblenz, Looking from the Rhine towards the Buildings of the Moselle Waterfront and the Petersberg 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-the-moselle-bridge-at-coblenz-looking-from-the-rhine-towards-r1150809, accessed 23 September 2024.