J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

With fine and agile handling, here Turner records a series of diminutive views as he explored the neighbouring villages of Treis and Karden on the Moselle. The Burg Treis is seen in the uppermost and central sketches, while both Karden and Treis are depicted in the second sketch from top, at left and right respectively. This view includes Karden’s twin-towered Church of St Castor, the Georgskapelle, the sixteenth-century Amtshaus building on the riverfront, and Treis’s early seventeenth-century Zilleskapelle perched high on the valley cliff. The lowermost view shows the Zilleskapelle at left, with Karden on the opposite side of the Moselle at right. Treis and Karden are recorded again on Tate D19799, D19801, D20233, D24735, D28315, D28354, D28355, D28557, D28998; Turner Bequest CCXVI 124a, 125v, CCXX Z, CCLIX 170, CCLXXXIX 13, CCXCI 9a, 10, 11, CCXCII 50.

Technical notes:

The paper has browned and the pencil has faded a little: this is the likely result of the folio’s overexposure during its display at the National Gallery in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.