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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839 > First Mossel and Oxford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Beilstein and Burg Metternich, Looking Downstream; Detail of the Spire of St Joseph's Church 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Beilstein and Burg Metternich, Looking Downstream; Detail of the Spire of St Joseph's Church’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Recto:
Beilstein and Burg Metternich, Looking Downstream; Detail of the Spire of St Joseph’s Church 1839
D28321
Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 16
Pencil on white wove drawing paper, 235 x 140 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Jos’ top right
Inscribed in red ink ‘16’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXIX–16’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight sketch shows Beilstein taken from a different angle from those views on the folio opposite (Tate D28320; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 15a). The Burg Metternich’s keep, outer bailey, round tower and residential and side buildings can be seen built into the steep slate cliff overlooking the village below. St Joseph’s Church and Carmelite Monastery is directly below; Turner has made a quick jotting of its spire above and to the left has inscribed ‘Jos’, a shortening of ‘Joseph’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Beilstein and Burg Metternich, Looking Downstream; Detail of the Spire of St Joseph’s Church 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-beilstein-and-burg-metternich-looking-downstream-detail-of-r1150602, accessed 27 April 2024.