Graphite on paper
Rivers Meuse and Moselle Sketchbook
Rivers Meuse and Moselle Sketchbook
Meuse-Mosel, Luxembourg and Northern France 1824
Meuse-Mosel, Luxembourg and Northern France 1824
Germany
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Rivers Meuse and Moselle Sketchbook
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
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Nine Moselle between Ensch and Klüsserath
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
boat - non-specific
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
Ensch
Germany
hill
Klüsserath
landscape
natural features (non-UK)
places
river
River Mosel
society
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
transport: water
water: inland
<p>Turner used this small fat sketchbook throughout his 1824 tour when he first explored the Meuse south of Liège and the Mosel between Trier and Coblenz. Besides thousands of tiny river sketches, it contains his preparatory notes and sketch maps (see no.1), an itinerary, and the clue which establishes the year of the tour: the sketches for a painting of Dieppe exhibited in 1825. During his four days travelling by boat down the Mosel (29 August - 1 September) he drew many sketches on each page, often with very fine detail, names and notes. On these two pages he also recorded compass bearings, stimulated by the spectacular whiplash bends seen on his first day on the river.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite
Nine Sketches of the Moselle between Ensch and Klüsserath
support: 118 × 78 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>Turner used this small fat sketchbook throughout his 1824 tour when he first explored the Meuse south of Liège and the Mosel between Trier and Coblenz. Besides thousands of tiny river sketches, it contains his preparatory notes and sketch maps (see no.1), an itinerary, and the clue which establishes the year of the tour: the sketches for a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> of Dieppe exhibited in 1825. During his four days travelling by boat down the Mosel (29 August - 1 September) he drew many sketches on each page, often with very fine detail, names and notes. On these two pages he also recorded compass bearings, stimulated by the spectacular whiplash bends seen on his first day on the river.</p>
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architecture boat - non-specific cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents Ensch Germany hill Klüsserath landscape natural features (non-UK) places river River Mosel society townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features transport: water water: inland
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