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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cochem from Cond, Showing the Northern Part of the Town; The Burg at Cochem and its Neighbouring Hills 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cochem from Cond, Showing the Northern Part of the Town; The Burg at Cochem and its Neighbouring Hills’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Recto:
Cochem from Cond, Showing the Northern Part of the Town; The Burg at Cochem and its Neighbouring Hills 1839
D28361
Turner Bequest CCXC 6
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘6’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–6’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With fine and agile handling, Turner represents the town from the opposite riverbank at Cond. The sketch shows the baroque Parish Church of Saint Martin and a parade of narrow-fronted gabled houses lining the river. This sketch is continued from the folio opposite to make one panoramic view (Tate D28360; Turner Bequest CCXC 5a). Both formed the basis of a gouache and watercolour drawing of c.1839 (Tate D24725; Turner Bequest CCLIX 160).
For further depictions of Cochem in this sketchbook see Tate D28359, D28362–D28363; Turner Bequest CCXC 5, 6a–7. See also the First Mossel and Oxford sketchbook belonging to the 1839 tour (Tate D28295, D28296, D28318, D28319; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 3, 3a, 14a, 15). For earlier views see the Rivers Meuse and Moselle sketchbook of 1824 (Tate D19792–D19796; Turner Bequest CCXVI 121–123).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Cochem from Cond, Showing the Northern Part of the Town; The Burg at Cochem and its Neighbouring Hills 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-cochem-from-cond-showing-the-northern-part-of-the-town-the-r1150646, accessed 20 April 2024.