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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Five Sketches of the Moselle betwen the Mosel Lorelei and Wintrich 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Five Sketches of the Moselle betwen the Mosel Lorelei and Wintrich’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 104 Verso:
Five Sketches of the Moselle betwen the Mosel Lorelei and Wintrich 1824
D19755
Turner Bequest CCXVI 103 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Minheim’ centre right towards bottom; ‘Wintrick’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Travelling downstream from the ‘Mosel Lorelei’ (Tate D19754; Turner Bequest CCXVI 103), Turner passed the villages of Minheim and Wintrich. He has recorded them here in a series of detailed sketches.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Five Sketches of the Moselle betwen the Mosel Lorelei and Wintrich 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-five-sketches-of-the-moselle-betwen-the-mosel-lorelei-and-r1174546, accessed 24 April 2024.