Joseph Mallord William Turner

This slight sketch shows the town of Kaub, situated between Oberwesel and Bachrach on the right bank of the Rhine. The view encompasses the twelfth-century Burg Gutenfels (also known as Castle Caub) atop the cliff at left, the evangelical rectory and spired Catholic church below, and the Pfalzgrafenstein, a toll castle on Falkenau island in the Rhine, at right. The Pfalz was erected in the fourteenth century to collect levys from ships passing through this stretch of the river for Castle Gutenfels.1