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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Oberfell, Looking Downstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Oberfell, Looking Downstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Verso:
Oberfell, Looking Downstream 1839
D28579
Turner Bequest CCXCI 22 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 100 x 156 mm
Watermarked with French imperial eagle
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Oberfeldt’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view is of Oberfell, a village in the Moselle valley situated between Kattenes and Lehmen. Turner has suggested a few of the vessels which ply the waters of the Moselle with single vertical lines to represent their masts. The spire of the fourteenth-century Pfarrkirche St Nikolas can be seen at right.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Oberfell, Looking Downstream 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-oberfell-looking-downstream-r1150863, accessed 25 April 2024.