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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Moselle Waterfront at Coblenz, below the Bridge, with Ehrenbreitstein Beyond 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Moselle Waterfront at Coblenz, below the Bridge, with Ehrenbreitstein Beyond’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 95 Recto:
The Moselle Waterfront at Coblenz, below the Bridge, with Ehrenbreitstein Beyond 1839
D28536
Turner Bequest CCXC 91
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘91’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–91’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This swiftly wrought sketch depicts a few of the townspeople of Koblenz at the Moselle waterfront below the bridge. The twin towers of the Basilica of St Castor can be seen in the middle distance at right and beyond, atop the cliff, is the profile of the Ehrenbreistein citadel.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Moselle Waterfront at Coblenz, below the Bridge, with Ehrenbreitstein Beyond 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-below-the-bridge-with-r1150816, accessed 20 September 2024.