Gouache and watercolour on paper
Meuse-Moselle Gouache and Watercolour Drawings
Meuse-Moselle Gouache and Watercolour Drawings
The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839
The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839
Germany
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
<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>
Distant Coblenz and Ehrenbreitstein
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
Coblenz, Ehrenbreitstein
countries and continents
fortification
Germany
hill
landscape
military
natural features (non-UK)
places
river
River Mosel
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
water: inland
<p>The distant silhouette of Ehrenbreitstein, high above the confluence of the Rhine and the Mosel, was visible for miles to the traveller journeying down the Mosel. Turner recorded it several times in pencil sketches but this brilliantly coloured study does not correspond precisely to any of these and is, above all, a generalised and impressionistic recollection of his experiences.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique gouache watercolour
26 May 2003 – 8 December 2003
2003-12-08
26 May 2003
2003-05-26
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-05-26
British Watercolours: Turner and his Contemporaries around 1840
Collection based display
29 March 2013 – 28 July 2013
2013-07-28
29 March 2013 – 28 July 2013
2013-07-28
2013-03-29
Museum Wiesbaden (Wiesbaden, Germany)
2013-03-29
Rhine Romanticism - Art and Nature
Loan-out
Distant View of Coblenz and Ehrenbreitstein
support: 139 × 190 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>The distant silhouette of Ehrenbreitstein, high above the confluence of the Rhine and the Mosel, was visible for miles to the traveller journeying down the Mosel. Turner recorded it several times in <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/graphite" title="Glossary definition for 'Graphite'"><span>pencil</span></a> sketches but this brilliantly coloured study does not correspond precisely to any of these and is, above all, a generalised and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/i/impressionism" title="Glossary definition for 'Impressionism'"><span>impressionistic</span></a> recollection of his experiences.</p>
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2014-11-09T00:00:00
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architecture cities, towns, villages (non-UK) Coblenz, Ehrenbreitstein countries and continents fortification Germany hill landscape military natural features (non-UK) places river River Mosel townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features water: inland
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