Watercolour and pen and ink on paper
Germany
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Ehrenbreitstein
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
boat - non-specific
castle
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
Coblenz, Ehrenbreitstein
countries and continents
Germany
hill
landscape
military
natural features (non-UK)
places
river
River Mosel
River Rhine
society
transport: water
water: inland
<p>Unlike the gouache studies in this room, nos.128-134 were executed in the course of one of Turner's tours when he must have stayed in a hotel on the Rhine front at Coblenz looking out at Ehrenbreitstein. Under the setting sun the fortress and river assumed an ever-changing succession of colours which he recorded in swift watercolour washes and bold flourishes of pen and ink, folding and tearing his paper hastily as he went along. In no.128 his viewpoint is downstream of the bridge of boats, but the latter is visible in all the other scenes, sometimes with a few boats moved aside to allow the passage of a raft or steamer.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique watercolour pen ink
10 September 2014 – 20 September 2015
2015-09-20
10 September 2014 – 25 January 2015
2015-01-25
2014-09-10
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
24 February 2015 – 24 May 2015
2015-05-24
2015-02-24
J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, USA)
20 June 2015 – 20 September 2015
2015-09-20
2015-06-20
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum (San Francisco, USA)
http://www.famsf.org
2014-09-10
Late Turner: Painting Set Free
Exhibition
24 February 2015 – 31 January 2016
2016-01-31
24 February 2015 – 24 May 2015
2015-05-24
2015-02-24
J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, USA)
20 June 2015 – 20 September 2015
2015-09-20
2015-06-20
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum
31 October 2015 – 31 January 2016
2016-01-31
2015-10-31
Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada)
http://www.ago.net
2015-02-24
Late Turner
Loan-out
Ehrenbreitstein
support: 237 × 300 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>Unlike the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/g/gouache" title="Glossary definition for 'Gouache'"><span>gouache</span></a> studies in this room, nos.128-134 were executed in the course of one of Turner's tours when he must have stayed in a hotel on the Rhine front at Coblenz looking out at Ehrenbreitstein. Under the setting sun the fortress and river assumed an ever-changing succession of colours which he recorded in swift <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolour</span></a> washes and bold flourishes of <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/pen-and-ink" title="Glossary definition for 'Pen and Ink'"><span>pen and ink</span></a>, folding and tearing his <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/paper" title="Glossary definition for 'Paper'"><span>paper</span></a> hastily as he went along. In no.128 his viewpoint is downstream of the bridge of boats, but the latter is visible in all the other scenes, sometimes with a few boats moved aside to allow the passage of a raft or steamer.</p>
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architecture boat - non-specific castle cities, towns, villages (non-UK) Coblenz, Ehrenbreitstein countries and continents Germany hill landscape military natural features (non-UK) places river River Mosel River Rhine society transport: water water: inland
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