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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Moselweiss, Looking Downstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Moselweiss, Looking Downstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Verso:
Moselweiss, Looking Downstream 1839
D28599
Turner Bequest CCXCI 32 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 100 x 156 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘Moselwilz’ bottom centre towards left
Watermarked with French imperial eagle
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight and swiftly rendered sketch shows the village of Moselweiss (or ‘Moselwilz’ as Turner has inscribed). It is neighbour to Güls and the city of Koblenz. Quin writes that the village is fabled to have been ‘the place where Agrippina gave birth to Caligula’.1

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

1
Michael Joseph Quin, Steam voyages on the Seine, the Moselle, & the Rhine, London 1843, p.75.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Moselweiss, 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-moselweiss-looking-downstream-r1150883, accessed 22 September 2024.