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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner River and Distant Hills (Possibly a View on the Rhine near Koblenz?) 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘River and Distant Hills (Possibly a View on the Rhine near Koblenz?)’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Recto:
River and Distant Hills (Possibly a View on the Rhine near Koblenz?) 1824
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Turner Bequest CCXVIII 6
Watercolour, pencil and chalk on white wove paper, 220 x 291 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘6’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVIII–6’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This swift and summary pencil sketch depicts a river scene, perhaps a view on the Rhine near the city of Koblenz. Houses and a turreted tower can be seen near the banks at left and in the foreground, a group of moored boats afloat on the still waters. In the middle distance a village is visible, highlighted with the briefest vertical flicks of chalk.
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Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘River and Distant Hills (Possibly a View on the Rhine near Koblenz?) 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2013, 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-river-and-distant-hills-possibly-a-view-on-the-rhine-near-r1174882, accessed 25 April 2024.