J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View from the Heights above Pallien, Looking down the Moselle and down on the White House and the Northern Edge of Trier 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View from the Heights above Pallien, Looking down the Moselle and down on the White House and the Northern Edge of Trier’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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View from the Heights above Pallien, Looking down the Moselle and down on the White House and the Northern Edge of Trier 1824
D20150
Turner Bequest CCXVIII 12
Watercolour, pencil and chalk on white wove paper, 220 x 291 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘12’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVIII–12’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Having hiked further into the hills above Pallien, Turner has recorded a view of the northern edge of Trier (at in the middle distance and at right). The architecture of the city is highlighted with flecks and soft hatches of chalk and the foreground, rendered in pencil, reveals the rubble and shrubbery of the hillside. The view also incorporates the Weisshaus (White House), a neo-classical mansion overlooking the banks of the Moselle. Built as a small farm cottage in the seventeenth century, a grand villa was constructed on these foundations a year before Turner’s visit in 1823.1
Turner took a similar view to this in a sketchbook belonging to the 1839 tour of the Meuse-Moselle region (see Tate D28255; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 49a).
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‘Das Historische Weisshaus’, Weisshaus Trier, accessed 11 December 2013, http://www.weisshaus.de/historische-2.php
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Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘View from the Heights above Pallien, Looking down the Moselle and down on the White House and the Northern Edge of Trier 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-view-from-the-heights-above-pallien-looking-down-the-moselle-r1174889, accessed 20 May 2024.