Graphite, watercolour, gouache and chalk on paper
Trèves and Rhine Sketchbook
Trèves and Rhine 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
Trèves and Rhine Sketchbook
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
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Moselle Hillside at Pallien Looking Upstream with Roman Bridge in Distance and Trier Hidden behind Trees on Left
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
Germany
hill
landscape
natural features (non-UK)
Pallien - non-specific
places
river
River Mosel
tree
water: inland
<p>This sketchbook and another used on the Mosel in 1824 were the first ones with soft covers Turner took on a foreign tour. In these he made his more ambitious sketches in the towns where he stopped, sometimes finishing his work in colour. In both sketchbooks he prepared the pages with a grey wash so that his coloured drawings show a strong continuity, in technique as well as vision, with his depictions of the Rhine in 1817. In this distant view of Trier from across the Mosel Turner contrasts the vivid energy of nature - clouds and cliffs, trees and bushes - with the stability of Germany's oldest city, lying placidly at the centre.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour gouache chalk
The Moselle from the Hillside at Pallien, Looking Upstream with the Roman Bridge in the Distance and Trier Hidden behind the Trees on the Left
support: 220 × 291 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>This sketchbook and another used on the Mosel in 1824 were the first ones with soft covers Turner took on a foreign tour. In these he made his more ambitious sketches in the towns where he stopped, sometimes finishing his work in colour. In both sketchbooks he prepared the pages with a grey wash so that his coloured <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> show a strong continuity, in technique as well as vision, with his depictions of the Rhine in 1817. In this distant view of Trier from across the Mosel Turner contrasts the vivid energy of nature - clouds and cliffs, trees and bushes - with the stability of Germany's oldest city, lying placidly at the centre.</p>
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cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents Germany hill landscape natural features (non-UK) Pallien - non-specific places river River Mosel tree water: inland
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