Gouache and watercolour on paper
France
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>
On Mosel
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
boat - non-specific
countries and continents
France
hill
landscape
natural features (non-UK)
places
river
River Mosel
society
transport: water
water: inland
<p>These three studies were painted on a dark blue handmade Swiss paper. Turner seems to have made twenty-one drawings on this paper. He did not use it for any other works and probably bought it in one of the small villages or towns on his journey. It was made by Richard Bocking &amp; Company in a mill in Trarbach in Germany. Many of the works from this group just show the river and its surrounding hills, with an occasional boat in the foreground.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 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
On the Mosel
support: 185 × 228 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
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<span class="text13">These three studies were painted  on a dark blue      handmade Swiss <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>. Turner seems to have made twenty-one <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> on this      paper. He did not use </span><span class="text0">
it for any other works      and probably bought </span><span class="text14">it in one of the small      villages or towns  on his journey. It was made by Richard </span><span class="text15">Bocking &amp; Company</span><span class="text14"> in a mill      in Trarbach  in Germany. Many of the works from  this group just show the      river and its surrounding hills, with an occasional </span><span class="text0">
boat in the foreground.  </span>
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boat - non-specific countries and continents France hill landscape natural features (non-UK) places river River Mosel society transport: water water: inland
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