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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Deutsches Eck and Moselle Bridge, Coblenz, with the Rhine-Moselle Confluence, from Ehrenbreitstein 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Deutsches Eck and Moselle Bridge, Coblenz, with the Rhine-Moselle Confluence, from Ehrenbreitstein’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Recto:
The Deutsches Eck and Moselle Bridge, Coblenz, with the Rhine-Moselle Confluence, from Ehrenbreitstein 1839
D28355
Turner Bequest CCXC 3
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘3’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–3’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In rough, summary line Turner has pictured the Deutsches Eck or ‘German Corner’, the name of a headland at Koblenz where the Moselle joins the Rhine. The view, taken from Ehrenbreitstein, incorporates this spit of land, the bridge traversing the Moselle and the town of Koblenz.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Deutsches Eck and Moselle Bridge, Coblenz, with 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-the-deutsches-eck-and-moselle-bridge-coblenz-with-the-rhine-r1150640, accessed 21 November 2024.