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This slight sketch shows the Reichsburg overlooking the city of Cochem. The top of the castle’s keep continues onto the folio opposite (Tate
D41217). Reichsburg Castle was first mentioned in a document of 1051 and was for many years the established seat of the palatinate counts until the first German King Konrad III declared it an imperial castle.
1 It fell into ruin after an occupation by the French King Louis XIV over the course of the Nine Years War and remained in a decaying state until 1868 when it was rebuilt in the Gothic Revival architectural style.
2For other 1839 pencil sketches of the Reichsburg see Tate
D28543,
D28544,
D28546–D28548; Turner Bequest CCXCI 3a, 4, 5a–6a; the
Trèves to Cochem and Coblenz to Mayence sketchbook (Tate
D28358,
D28361; Turner Bequest CCXC 4a, 6); the
First Mossel and Oxford sketchbook (Tate
D28318; CCLXXXIX 14a) and the earlier
Rivers Meuse and Moselle sketchbook of 1824 (Tate
D19792,
D19794; Turner Bequest CCXVI 121, 122). For other gouaches of Cochem see Tate
D20238,
D20253,
D24723,
D24725,
D24806,
D28986; Turner Bequest CCXXI E, T, CLIX 158, 160, 241, CCXCII 39. See also the 1840 gouache
Cochem from above the Enderttal (Tate
D28992; Turner Bequest CCXCII 45).
Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013
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