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The Moselle from the Hillside at Pallien, Looking Upstream with the Roman Bridge in the Distance and Trier Hidden behind the Trees on the Left

© Tate, London 2019 | CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 (Unported)

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Date

1824

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851)

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https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-the-moselle-from-the-hillside-at-pallien-looking-upstream-with-the-roman-bridge-in-d20148

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This sketchbook and another used on the Mosel in 1824 were the first ones with soft covers Turner took on a foreign tour. In these he made his more ambitious sketches in the towns where he stopped, sometimes finishing his work in colour. In both sketchbooks he prepared the pages with a grey wash so that his coloured drawings show a strong continuity, in technique as well as vision, with his depictions of the Rhine in 1817. In this distant view of Trier from across the Mosel Turner contrasts the vivid energy of nature - clouds and cliffs, trees and bushes - with the stability of Germany's oldest city, lying placidly at the centre.
Gallery label, September 2004
Medium: Graphite, watercolour, gouache and chalk on paper
Credit line: 'Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856'

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CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 (Unported)

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© Tate, London 2019

Location

Roman Bridge, Römerbrücke, Trier, Germany

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