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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Views of Trarbach and the Grevenburg, Looking Upstream from the Path from the Town to the Ruins 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Views of Trarbach and the Grevenburg, Looking Upstream from the Path from the Town to the Ruins’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Verso:
Three Views of Trarbach and the Grevenburg, Looking Upstream from the Path from the Town to the Ruins 1839
D28394
Turner Bequest CCXC 22 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 163 x 100 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘vines’ (inverted) towards bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Produced with the sketchbook turned upside down, Turner has rendered three picturesque views of Trarbach looking upstream. Each features the spired Church of St Nicholas and the ruined Grevenburg Castle atop the precipice on the right.
For other sketches of Trarbach and the Grevenburg see Tate D28390–D28393, D28395, D28400–D28401; Turner Bequest CCXC 20a – 22, 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, D20275; Turner Bequest CCXX P, CCXXI A, G, Z, CCXXII P).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Three Views of Trarbach and the Grevenburg, Looking Upstream from the Path from the Town to the Ruins 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-three-views-of-trarbach-and-the-grevenburg-looking-upstream-r1150679, accessed 21 September 2024.