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
countries and continents
France
landscape
mountain
natural features (non-UK)
places
river
River Mosel
valley
water: inland
<p>This work differs from the other River Mosel works displayed on this wall. Its paper, a darker blue, comes from a mill close to the scene depicted here and it is likely to have been painted on the spot. Look carefully and you will see no pencil lines. This work was made using paint alone. It was rare for Turner to paint outdoors. He preferred sketching quickly in pencil and tended to apply colour when working pictures up in his hotel room, if on tour, or back in his London studio.</p><p><em>Gallery label, October 2023</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
13 March 2023
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2023-03-13
Gallery 102
Collection based display
On the Mosel
support: 185 × 233 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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<p>This work differs from the other River Mosel works displayed on this wall. Its paper, a darker blue, comes from a mill close to the scene depicted here and it is likely to have been painted on the spot. Look carefully and you will see no pencil lines. This work was made using paint alone. It was rare for Turner to paint outdoors. He preferred sketching quickly in pencil and tended to apply colour when working pictures up in his hotel room, if on tour, or back in his London studio.</p>
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countries and continents France landscape mountain natural features (non-UK) places river River Mosel valley water: inland
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