In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Gouache and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 141 × 188 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D20254
Turner Bequest CCXXI U
Display caption
Turner passed Mayen while travelling by road between the Rhine and the Mosel. His gouache study is dominated by the vast black hulk of the Genovevaburg, a fortified castle built between 1280 and 1311. In the foreground it shows the medieval town walls, with the Brückentor at lower right, above which can be seen St Clement's church with its twisted spire. Late nineteenth-century photographs show Mayen very much as Turner did, but the visitor there today finds it sadly altered: most of the town was destroyed in the Second World War and it has subsequently been reconstructed and expanded almost beyond recognition.
Gallery label, August 2004
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