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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of the Buildings at Trier as Seen from Pallien 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of the Buildings at Trier as Seen from Pallien’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 93 Verso:
Sketches of the Buildings at Trier as Seen from Pallien 1824
D19733
Turner Bequest CCXVI 92 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Palli’ top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These finely rendered drawings depict various buildings at Trier, recorded by Turner from a vantage point on the hillsides of Pallien (inscribed ‘Palli’ at top left). Included within the views are the Martinskloster and Altekrahnen, St Gangolf’s Church, the Roman Bridge, and Pallien’s Church of Saints Simon and Jude with and a detail of the same church’s spire at bottom left. Similar sketches are found on the folio opposite Tate D19734; Turner Bequest CCXVI 93. See also Tate D19725–D19732, D19735–D19743; Turner Bequest CCXVI 88a–92, 93a–97a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketches of the Buildings at Trier as Seen from Pallien 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sketches-of-the-buildings-at-trier-as-seen-from-pallien-r1174524, accessed 26 April 2024.