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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Mayen with the Genovevaburg, St Clement's Church and Brückentor Shown in Enlarged Detail 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mayen with the Genovevaburg, St Clement's Church and Brückentor Shown in Enlarged Detail’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 43 Verso:
Mayen with the Genovevaburg, St Clement’s Church and Brückentor Shown in Enlarged Detail 1839
D28436
Turner Bequest CCXC 43 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 163 x 100 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Mayen’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These slight and summary jottings represent various monuments in Mayen: the Genovevaburg at centre, the twisted spire of St Clement’s Church, and the gated and towered bridge, the Brückentor. Part of the sketch of the Genovevaburg extends onto folio 44 recto (Tate D28437; Turner Bequest CCXC 44). Turner has inscribed the page ‘Mayen’.
This sketch and those on Tate D28434, D28435; Turner Bequest CCXC 42a, 43 provided Turner with the information to produce a striking scene of the Genovevaburg and Mayen at sunset (Tate D20254; Turner Bequest CCXXI U).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Mayen with the Genovevaburg, St Clement’s Church and Brückentor Shown in Enlarged Detail 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-mayen-with-the-genovevaburg-st-clements-church-and-r1150719, accessed 17 June 2025.