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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Kobern; The River Front at Kobern; The Niederberg at Kobern 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Kobern; The River Front at Kobern; The Niederberg at Kobern’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 134 Recto:
Kobern; The River Front at Kobern; The Niederberg at Kobern 1824
D19814
Turner Bequest CCXVI 132
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Watermark ‘[smith &] allnut | [18]22’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Coberen’ centre towards bottom left
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘132’ top right and ‘[...]23’ bottom left
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–132’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These slight sketches show the town of Kobern from various aspects. The uppermost view takes in both the Oberburg, the Chapel of St Matthias and the Niederburg, while the lowermost sketch is a study of the latter of these castles from a closer vantage point. Turner pictures the Moselle at Kobern in the central sketch, including some of the local buildings and houses which line its banks.
For further drawings of Kobern and its ancient monuments see Tate D19812–D19813, D19815, D20271, D28300–D28301, D28589–D28594; Turner Bequest CCXVI 131–131a, 132a, CCXXII L, CCLXXXIX 5a–6, CCXCI 27a–30.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Kobern; The River Front at Kobern; The Niederberg at Kobern 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-kobern-the-river-front-at-kobern-the-niederberg-at-kobern-r1174605, accessed 09 May 2025.