Joseph Mallord William Turner

Schloss Stolzenfels and Kapellen, Looking Upstream; Burg Metternich at Beilstein on the Moselle, Looking Downstream from the Hillside

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
D28527
Turner Bequest CCXC 86 a

Catalogue entry

Drawn inversely to one another are two views of the Schloss Stolzenfels and the village of Kapellen and the Burg Metternich at Beilstein. There is a detail of the latter fortification at top centre.
For other representations of the Schloss Stolzenfels in this sketchbook see Tate D28449, D28525, D28528; Turner Bequest CCXC 50, 85a, 87. For earlier drawings see the Waterloo and Rhine and Rhine sketchbooks of 1817 (Tate D12808, D12812, D12882, D12907, D12909, D12975, D12977; CLX 55a, 57a, 93, CLXI 14, 16, 49a, 50a). See also the 1824 Meuse and Moselle sketchbook (Tate D19829, D19831; Turner Bequest CCXVI 139a, 140a).
For further drawings of the Burg Metternich in this sketchbook see Tate D28364, D28366–D28368, D28528, D28537; Turner Bequest CCXC 7a, 8a–9a, 87, 91a. See also the First Mossel and Oxford sketchbook belonging to the same 1839 tour (Tate D28301, D28320, D28321; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 6a, 15a, 16). See also the 1839 gouache and watercolour drawing of the Burg (Tate D20239; Turner Bequest CCXXI F). For earlier sketches of the monument see the Rivers Meuse and Moselle and Moselle (or Rhine) sketchbooks of 1824 (Tate D19784, D19787, D19788, D19790, D19792, D20166, D20167; Turner Bequest CCXVI 117, 118a, 119, 120, 121, CCXIX 5, 6).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

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