Joseph Mallord William Turner

Alken and Burg Thurandt, Looking Downstream

1839

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Cochem to Coblenz - Home Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 100 × 156 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D28572
Turner Bequest CCXCI 18 a

Catalogue entry

With agile handling, here Turner pictures the village of Alken, nestled at the foot of a mountain range. Buildings such as the Chapel of St Michael can be seen, built into the gradient leading toward the ‘ivy-mantled’ ruins of Burg Thurandt.1 One of the turrets of Wiltberg House can just be made out behind the church.
This sketch and that on Tate D28371; Turner Bequest CCXCI 18 formed the basis of a watercolour and gouache drawing of 1839 (Tate D29023; Turner Bequest CCXCII 72). For other views of Alken and the Burg Thurandt in this sketchbook see Tate D28373–D28377; Turner Bequest CCXCI 19–21.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

1
Michael Joseph Quin, Steam voyages on the Seine, the Moselle, & the Rhine, London 1843, p.60.

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