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 > Trèves to Cochem and Coblenz to Mayence ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Kloster Stuben, Looking Downstream; ?Enkirch; ?Alf 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Kloster Stuben, Looking Downstream; ?Enkirch; ?Alf’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Recto:
Kloster Stuben, Looking Downstream; ?Enkirch; ?Alf 1839
D28375
Turner Bequest CCXC 13
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 163 x 100 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Enkirn’ top right towards centre; ‘v’ (three times) at centre left towards right
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘13’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–13’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The monastery (Kloster) at Stuben is depicted in a small sketch at top right; it is also shown on the previous folio (Tate D28374; Turner Bequest CCXC 12a). Below are two swiftly wrought sketches of scenes on the Moselle, possibly at Enkirch and Alf. The final sketch has been inscribed with the letter ‘v’, repeated three times. This letter has almost always represented ‘vines’ in Turner’s other annotated sketches of the Meuse- Moselle region.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Kloster Stuben, Looking Downstream; ?Enkirch; ?Alf 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-kloster-stuben-looking-downstream-enkirch-alf-r1150660, accessed 25 April 2024.