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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Traben, Trarbach and the Grevenburg, Looking Downstream, with the Flying Bridge in the Foreground 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Traben, Trarbach and the Grevenburg, Looking Downstream, with the Flying Bridge in the Foreground’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Recto:
Traben, Trarbach and the Grevenburg, Looking Downstream, with the Flying Bridge in the Foreground 1839
D28391
Turner Bequest CCXC 21
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘21’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–21’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch of Grevenburg Castle and that on the previous folio (Tate D28390; Turner Bequest CCXC 20a) formed the basis of a gouache and watercolour drawing of c.1839 (Tate D20275; Turner Bequest CCXXII P). The villages of Traben and Trarbach are depicted at either side of the Moselle with the remains of an old flying bridge which linked the two villages in former times.
For other sketches of Trarbach and the Grevenburg see Tate D28392–D28395, D28400–D28401; Turner Bequest CCXC 21a–23, 25a–26. See also the First Mossel and Oxford sketchbook of the 1839 tour (Tate D28308, D28310; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 9a, 10a). For other 1839 colour drawings see Tate D20223, D20234, D20240, D20259; Turner Bequest CCXX P, CCXXI A, G, Z).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Traben, Trarbach and the Grevenburg, Looking Downstream, with the Flying Bridge in the Foreground 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-traben-trarbach-and-the-grevenburg-looking-downstream-with-r1150676, accessed 19 April 2024.