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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Views of Beilstein, Looking Upstream 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Views of Beilstein, Looking Upstream’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 122 Verso:
Four Views of Beilstein, Looking Upstream 1824
D19791
Turner Bequest CCXVI 120 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Watermark ‘smith & [allnut] | 18[22]’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In four swift and roughly rendered views, Turner records the Moselle town of Beilstein and the Burg Metternich from a distance. See also Tate D19784, D19787–D19780, D19792, D20166, D20167; Turner Bequest CCXVI 117, 118a–120, 121, CCXIX 5, 6.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Four Views of Beilstein, Looking Upstream 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-four-views-of-beilstein-looking-upstream-r1174582, accessed 26 April 2024.