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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Eight Sketches of the Moselle between Riol and Mehring 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Eight Sketches of the Moselle between Riol and Mehring’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 101 Verso:
Eight Sketches of the Moselle between Riol and Mehring 1824
D19749
Turner Bequest CCXVI 100 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Riol’ top right; ‘E’ left top towards centre; ‘V’ left top towards centre; ‘wood’ top right towards centre; ‘Merich’ centre towards top left; ‘Riol W’ centre towards bottom; ‘Merich’ bottom centre; ‘M’ ‘E’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner records eight views of the Moselle valley, the hills lush with vines and woods. The villages of Mehring (‘Merich’) and Riol are pictured, as well as two figures on a fishing boat casting off their nets at centre. Mehring is shown again on the folio opposite (Tate D19750; Turner Bequest CCXVI 101). These sketches were taken as Turner made his way from Trier towards Neumagen on 29 August 1824.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Eight Sketches of the Moselle between Riol and Mehring 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-eight-sketches-of-the-moselle-between-riol-and-mehring-r1174540, accessed 26 April 2024.