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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839 > First Mossel and Oxford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Ruined Monastery at Wolf, Wolfer Kloster, in the Distance and Detail of its Tower; Wolfer Kloster; The Grevenburg, Looking Downstream from below Wolf; Traben, Trarbach and the Grevenburg, Looking Downstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Ruined Monastery at Wolf, Wolfer Kloster, in the Distance and Detail of its Tower; Wolfer Kloster; The Grevenburg, Looking Downstream from below Wolf; Traben, Trarbach and the Grevenburg, Looking Downstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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The Ruined Monastery at Wolf, Wolfer Kloster, in the Distance and Detail of its Tower; Wolfer Kloster; The Grevenburg, Looking Downstream from below Wolf; Traben, Trarbach and the Grevenburg, Looking Downstream 1839
D28310
Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 10 a
Pencil on white wove drawing paper, 235 x 140 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Wolfer Clers’ far right, ‘Trabach’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The village of Wolf is situated on the Moselle, just before the traveller reaches Traben-Trarbach. Turner has pictured the monastery there, the Wolfer Kloster, which lies in ruin perched on the summit of a cliff. The artist has also made a swift and summary jotting of the cloister tower, inscribing ‘Wolfer Clers’ next to it. Below is a further view of Wolf, followed by two sketches of the Grevenburg at Traben-Trarbach.
The monastery at Wolf is also depicted in the Trèves to Cochem and Coblenz to Mayence sketchbook belonging to the 1839 tour (Tate D28403; Turner Bequest CCXC 27). For other sketches of Traben, Trarbach and the Grevenburg in this book see Tate D28308; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 9a; see also the Trèves to Cochem and Coblenz to Mayence sketchbook belonging to the 1839 tour (Tate D28390–D28395, D28400–D28401; Turner Bequest CCXC 20a–23, 25a–26). For gouache drawings of the Grevenburg produced in c.1839 see Tate D20223, D20234, D20240, D20259, D20275; Turner Bequest CCXX P, CCXXI A, G, Z, CCXXII P).

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Ruined Monastery at Wolf, Wolfer Kloster, in the Distance and Detail of its Tower; Wolfer Kloster; The Grevenburg, Looking Downstream from below Wolf; Traben, Trarbach and the Grevenburg, Looking Downstream 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-ruined-monastery-at-wolf-wolfer-kloster-in-the-distance-r1150591, accessed 13 May 2024.