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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Six Sketches of the Moselle near Ehrang 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Six Sketches of the Moselle near Ehrang’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 100 Recto:
Six Sketches of the Moselle near Ehrang 1824
D19746
Turner Bequest CCXVI 99
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘5’ centre right; ‘6’ centre towards bottom right; ‘Erang’ centre towards bottom right; ‘C[...] Ch[...]’ bottom right; ‘7’ bottom right
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘99’ and ‘1440’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–99’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner records sights on the Moselle near the village of Ehrang (inscribed ‘Erang’) as he navigated away from Trier towards Neumagen on 29 August 1824 (see also Tate D19744–D19746; Turner Bequest CCXVI 98–98a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Six Sketches of the Moselle near Ehrang 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-six-sketches-of-the-moselle-near-ehrang-r1174537, accessed 27 April 2024.