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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Lay, Looking Downstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lay, Looking Downstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Verso:
Lay, Looking Downstream 1839
D28595
Turner Bequest CCXCI 30 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 100 x 156 mm
Watermarked ‘[v d m]eulen’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Light’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view shows the village of Lay, situated on a bend of the Moselle between the vertiginous cliffs of the ‘Hunstruck’ mountain range.1 Turner has inscribed the word ‘Light’ next to the drawing.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

1
Michael Joseph Quin, Steam voyages on the Seine, the Moselle, & the Rhine, London 1843, p.74.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Lay, 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-lay-looking-downstream-r1150879, accessed 26 April 2024.