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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Burg Klopp, Bingen, the Mäuseturm and Burg Ehrenfels (in Two Instalments) 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Burg Klopp, Bingen, the Mäuseturm and Burg Ehrenfels (in Two Instalments)’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Recto:
Burg Klopp, Bingen, the Mäuseturm and Burg Ehrenfels (in Two Instalments) 1835
D30645
Turner Bequest CCCIV 8
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark ‘jh[&z]’
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–8’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of the Rhine from Bingen on the left bank to Burg Ehrenfels on the right. Bingen can be seen at centre, marked out by the spires of its church, along with Burg Klopp atop the hill. On a small river island at far right is the Mäuseturm. Burg Ehrenfels and the right bank of the Rhine are depicted above, parallel to the gutter of the sketchbook.
Castles Klopp and Ehrenfels, together with the Mäuseturm, were built in the thirteenth century by the Archbishopric of Mainz to exact taxes from passing river traffic. See also Tate D30644, D30646–D30651; Turner Bequest CCCIV 7a, 8a–11.

Alice Rylance-Watson
November 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Burg Klopp, Bingen, the Mäuseturm and Burg Ehrenfels (in Two Instalments) 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-burg-klopp-bingen-the-mauseturm-and-burg-ehrenfels-in-two-r1187026, accessed 17 May 2024.