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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839 > First Mossel and Oxford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Landshut, Looking Downstream; Kues and the Landshut, Looking Downstream; Kues, Bernkastel and the Landshut, Looking Downstream, plus Detail of the Landshut; Riverbanks near Bernkastel and the Flying Bridge 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Landshut, Looking Downstream; Kues and the Landshut, Looking Downstream; Kues, Bernkastel and the Landshut, Looking Downstream, plus Detail of the Landshut; Riverbanks near Bernkastel and the Flying Bridge’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Recto:
The Landshut, Looking Downstream; Kues and the Landshut, Looking Downstream; Kues, Bernkastel and the Landshut, Looking Downstream, plus Detail of the Landshut; Riverbanks near Bernkastel and the Flying Bridge 1839
D28313
Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 12
Pencil on white wove drawing paper, 235 x 140 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘12’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXIX–12’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As with the folio opposite (Tate D28312; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 11a), this series of landscape sketches show the villages of Bernkastel and Kues and the ruins of the Burg Landshut. The lowermost view incorporates the pontoon or flying bridge over the Moselle.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Landshut, Looking Downstream; Kues and the Landshut, Looking Downstream; Kues, Bernkastel and the Landshut, Looking Downstream, plus Detail of the Landshut; Riverbanks near Bernkastel and the Flying Bridge 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-the-landshut-looking-downstream-kues-and-the-landshut-r1150594, accessed 26 April 2024.