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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839 > Trèves to Cochem and Coblenz to Mayence ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Moselle Waterfront at Coblenz from the Bridge; Peasant Woman 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Moselle Waterfront at Coblenz from the Bridge; Peasant Woman’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 94 Recto:
The Moselle Waterfront at Coblenz from the Bridge; Peasant Woman 1839
D28534
Turner Bequest CCXC 90
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Red’ top left towards centre
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘90’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–90’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These rough jottings show the buildings which line the waterfront at Koblenz, recorded by Turner from the Moselle Bridge. The twin towers of the Basilica of St Castor feature repeatedly. Next to the sketch of a tower is a peasant woman dressed in traditional garments, Turner inscribing the word ‘Red’ close to her blouse or neck scarf.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Moselle Waterfront at Coblenz from the Bridge; Peasant Woman 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-waterfront-at-coblenz-from-the-bridge-peasant-r1150814, accessed 19 September 2024.