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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Trier, Pallien and the Napoleonsbrücke from the River Bank to the North-West, Looking up the Mosel 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Trier, Pallien and the Napoleonsbrücke from the River Bank to the North-West, Looking up the Mosel’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Trier, Pallien and the Napoleonsbrücke from the River Bank to the North-West, Looking up the Mosel 1824
D20154
Turner Bequest CCXVIII 16
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 220 x 291 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘16’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVIII–16’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered in fine and agile handling, this view shows the ancient city of Trier at far left and Pallien, on the opposite side of the Moselle, at right nestled within hillside. Trier’s Church of St Paulinus, a masterpiece of Baroque ornament, is represented minutely and delicately close to the river’s edge; the cathedral and Liebfrauenkirche, meanwhile, are suggested in simple linear profile towards the right. Pallien’s Napoleonsbrücke, a road bridge constructed by the French Emperor in the early nineteenth century, is identifiable a little way up the hillside, marked out by a diminutive arch (see also Tate D20145, D20146; Turner Bequest CCXVIII 7, 8).
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Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Trier, Pallien and the Napoleonsbrücke from the River Bank to the North-West, Looking up the Mosel 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-trier-pallien-and-the-napoleonsbrucke-from-the-river-bank-to-r1174893, accessed 24 November 2024.