Joseph Mallord William Turner

This series of diminutive yet finely rendered Moselle views shows Klotten (‘Cloten’), its Burg Coraidelstein (‘Clottenburg’), and the neighbouring village of Pommern (‘Pomeron’). For further views of Klotten in this sketchbook see Tate D19794, D19797; Turner Bequest CCXVI 122, 123a. See also Tate D28298, D28309, D28344, D28550, D28551, D28553; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 4a, 10, 27a, CCXCI 7a, 8, 9. For gouache and watercolour drawings of Klotten see Tate D20237, D28967; Turner Bequest CCXXI D, CCXCII 78. The Burg Coraidelstein and Klotten both feature in the frontispiece design of Clarkson Stanfield’s Sketches on the Moselle, the Rhine, & the Meuse of 1839.1