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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dieblich and Kobern, Looking Upstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dieblich and Kobern, Looking Upstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Verso:
Dieblich and Kobern, Looking Upstream 1839
D28589
Turner Bequest CCXCI 27 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 100 x 156 mm
Watermarked ‘v d m[eulen]’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Diblick’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight sketch shows the towns of Dieblich and Kobern which face each other on opposite sides of the Mosel. Each is overlooked by the ruins of castles, both seen here in profile, and both, as Quin writes, wearing an ‘air of grandeur’.1 Dieblich (shown here on the left as ‘Diblick’) is described by Quin as ‘the terminus of that part of the district of the Moselle which may be correctly described as the “Vale of Chivalry”’.2 The towns are pictured again on the folio opposite (Tate D28590; Turner Bequest CCXCI 28).

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

1
Michael Joseph Quin, Steam voyages on the Seine, the Moselle, & the Rhine, London 1843, p.63.
2
Ibid, p.65.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Dieblich and Kobern, Looking Upstream 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-dieblich-and-kobern-looking-upstream-r1150873, accessed 26 April 2024.