Gouache and watercolour on paper
Germany
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
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<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>
Mosel Bridge at Coblenz Colour
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
bridge
bridges and viaducts
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
cliff
Coblenz, Ehrenbreitstein
countries and continents
fortification
Germany
landscape
military
natural features (non-UK)
places
river
River Mosel
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
water: inland
<p>Turner often passed along the Rhine on his Swiss tours of the 1840s and worked on his drawings of Coblenz and Ehrenbreitstein during the same period as his famous late depictions of the Rigi seen across Lake Lucerne. No.135 is a preparatory study for no.136, with the same colours used in a much simpler and more spontaneous way and with a less rigorously organised composition. No.136 is one of more than twenty 'sample studies' produced in the 1840s for Turner's agent Thomas Griffith to show to potential patrons in order to attract commissions. Ruskin ordered a watercolour based on this study which is today known only through copies made by his pupils.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique gouache watercolour
5 April 2013 – 5 January 2015
2015-01-05
5 April 2013 – 5 January 2015
2015-01-05
2013-04-05
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2013-04-05
Turner: Works on Paper
Collection based display
The Mosel Bridge at Coblenz: Colour Study
support: 246 × 348 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 often passed along the Rhine on his Swiss tours of the 1840s and worked on 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/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> of Coblenz and Ehrenbreitstein during the same period as his famous late depictions of the Rigi seen across Lake Lucerne. No.135 is a preparatory study for no.136, with the same colours used in a much simpler and more spontaneous way and with a less rigorously organised <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a>. No.136 is one of more than twenty 'sample studies' produced in the 1840s for Turner's agent Thomas Griffith to show to potential patrons in order to attract commissions. Ruskin ordered 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/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolour</span></a> based on this study which is today known only through copies made by his pupils.</p>
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architecture bridge bridges and viaducts cities, towns, villages (non-UK) cliff Coblenz, Ehrenbreitstein countries and continents fortification Germany landscape military natural features (non-UK) places river River Mosel townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features water: inland
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