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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Six Sketches of the Moselle between Wintrich and Mülheim 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Six Sketches of the Moselle between Wintrich and Mülheim’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 105 Recto:
Six Sketches of the Moselle between Wintrich and Mülheim 1824
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Turner Bequest CCXVI 104
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Filzen’ centre right; ‘Mulheim’ bottom right; ‘Duse[...]’ bottom right (obscured by inventory stamp)
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘104’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–104’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner pictures a series of views between the Moselle towns of Wintrich and Mülheim. The central and lowermost sketches are of a town now named Brauneberg, originally called Dusemond. It is most likely ‘Dusemond’ which Turner has inscribed at the bottom right of the sheet, the inscription regrettably obscured by Finberg’s Turner Bequest inventory stamp.
Filzen, depicted in the central view, is a village now incorporated into Brauneberg. Turner has drawn a view of Filzen’s ancient convent, situated at the water’s edge and lightly hatched in pencil to a soft grey hue. The Kloster der Franziskanerinnen was founded in 1455 and, as the name suggests, was the home of an order of Franciscan nuns.1

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

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Klöster und Stifte in Rheinland-Pfalz, Klosterlexikon, accessed 30 April 2014, http://www.klosterlexikon-rlp.de/mosel-saar/brauneberg-franziskanerinnenkloster-filzen.html.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Six Sketches of the Moselle between Wintrich and Mülheim 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-between-wintrich-and-mulheim-r1174547, accessed 23 April 2024.