Joseph Mallord William Turner

Burg Ehrenfels, the Mäuseturm, Burg Klopp and Bingen, Looking Upstream from below the Binger Loch

1839

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Trèves to Cochem and Coblenz to Mayence Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 100 × 163 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D28493
Turner Bequest CCXC 72

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The Castles Ehrenfels, Klopp, and Bingen, along with the Mäuseturm depicted in the previous folio (Tate D28492; Turner Bequest CCXC 71a), formed a network of defensive fortifications to protect the territory of the archbishopric of Mainz. The castles were of great strategic importance because of their favourable locations around the Binger Loch; they were used as toll stations to collect tax from ships passing through this stretch of the Rhine.1 Here Turner depicts the ruins of all three of these monuments, situated amongst dramatic mountain ranges of the Rhine Gorge.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

See entries for Castles Ehrenfels and Klopp, ‘Castles on the Rhine river in Germany’, Loreley Info, http://www.loreley-info.com/eng/rhein-rhine/castles.php, accessed 28 July 2013.

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