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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bernkastel and the Landshut, Looking Downstream from the Riverside at Kues; ?The Hospital at Kues 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bernkastel and the Landshut, Looking Downstream from the Riverside at Kues; ?The Hospital at Kues’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Recto:
Bernkastel and the Landshut, Looking Downstream from the Riverside at Kues; ?The Hospital at Kues 1839
D28409
Turner Bequest CCXC 30
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[?willow]’, ‘B’ towards bottom right; ‘[?Cues]’ (inverted) at bottom right
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘30’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–30’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch depicts Bernkastel and the Burg Landshut atop a mount. Turner’s viewpoint was from the riverside at Kues looking downstream on the Meuse. The Gothic Church of St Michael with its celebrated turreted spire is at centre left. The view is similar to Tate D28407; Turner Bequest CCXC 29, with both featuring scenes of local life in the foreground: figures sailing or attending to their boats, vessels moored at the shoreline. Both sketches also formed the basis of a gouache, pen and ink and watercolour drawing of c.1839 (private collection).1
There is a tiny drawing of what is believed to be the hospital at Kues at bottom right, sketched inversely to the principal scene.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.422 no.1029.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Bernkastel and the Landshut, Looking Downstream from the Riverside at Kues; ?The Hospital at Kues 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-bernkastel-and-the-landshut-looking-downstream-from-the-r1150694, accessed 26 April 2024.