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>
Traben Trarbach and Grevenburg
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
castle
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
Germany
Grevenburg
hill
landscape
man-made landmarks (non-UK)
military
military
places
river
ruins
townscapes / man-made features
Traben
Trarbach
village
water: inland
<p>Traben and Trarbach face each other across the Mosel and in Turner's day were linked by the flying bridge seen on the left of no.57. In his four gouache studies of these towns he shows contrasting views and handles his materials very differently. No.57 (painted on white paper prepared with a blue wash rather than on blue paper) looks downstream at both towns, while the feathery no.60 looks upstream at Trarbach alone. In the moonlit no.58 Turner's viewpoint is well away from the Mosel, on the southern fringes of Trarbach, and in the much more richly painted no.59 he is looking down on its many towers from close to its ruined castle.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique gouache watercolour
Traben, Trarbach and the Grevenburg
support: 138 × 187 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>Traben and Trarbach face each other across the Mosel and in Turner's day were linked by the flying bridge seen on the left of no.57. In his four <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/gouache" title="Glossary definition for 'Gouache'"><span>gouache</span></a> studies of these towns he shows contrasting views and handles his materials very differently. No.57 (painted on white <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> prepared with a blue wash rather than on blue paper) looks downstream at both towns, while the feathery no.60 looks upstream at Trarbach alone. In the moonlit no.58 Turner's viewpoint is well away from the Mosel, on the southern fringes of Trarbach, and in the much more richly painted no.59 he is looking down on its many towers from close to its ruined castle.</p>
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architecture castle cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents Germany Grevenburg hill landscape man-made landmarks (non-UK) military military places river ruins townscapes / man-made features Traben Trarbach village water: inland
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