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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Traben and the Flying Bridge 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Traben and the Flying Bridge’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 110 Verso:
Traben and the Flying Bridge 1824
D19767
Turner Bequest CCXVI 109 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This swiftly wrought sketch shows Traben and its flying bridge spanning the width of the Moselle. Standing atop it are two figures, facing towards the town and the Church of St Peter. The bridge of boats is depicted again in a later sketch of 1839: Tate D28391; Turner Bequest CCXC 21.
For further drawings of Traben-Trarbach and the Grevenberg dated 1824 see: Tate D19764–D19766, D19768–D19771, D20186, D20191; Turner Bequest CCXVI 108–109, 110–111a, CCXIX 25, 30.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Traben and the Flying Bridge 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-traben-and-the-flying-bridge-r1174558, accessed 25 April 2024.