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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Coblenz and the Rhine-Moselle Confluence, from Ehrenbreitstein 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coblenz and the Rhine-Moselle Confluence, from Ehrenbreitstein’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Verso:
Coblenz and the Rhine-Moselle Confluence, from Ehrenbreitstein 1839
D28354
Turner Bequest CCXC 2 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This swift and summary sketch depicts the confluence of the Rhine and Moselle Rivers at Koblenz from Ehrenbreitstein.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Coblenz and the Rhine-Moselle Confluence, from Ehrenbreitstein 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-coblenz-and-the-rhine-moselle-confluence-from-r1150639, accessed 21 November 2024.