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 Graach, Bernkastel and the Landshut, Looking Upstream; Zeltingen, Looking Downstream; Wehlen and Zeltingen, Looking Downstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Graach, Bernkastel and the Landshut, Looking Upstream; Zeltingen, Looking Downstream; Wehlen and Zeltingen, Looking Downstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Verso:
Graach, Bernkastel and the Landshut, Looking Upstream; Zeltingen, Looking Downstream; Wehlen and Zeltingen, Looking Downstream 1839
D28406
Turner Bequest CCXC 28 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 163 x 100 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Garash’ towards top left; ‘Zeltinten’ (inverted) centre towards left; ‘Wilen’ (inverted) bottom right, ‘Zeltinghen’ (inverted) bottom centre, ‘v’ (inverted) bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook positioned in accordance with the foliation, Turner has produced two slight sketches of the village of Graach, located upstream from Wehlen. Landshut Castle can be seen in the distance looming over the village of Bernkastel.1 The Burg Landshut is believed to have been erected as early as the fourth century, with a new castle built near these foundations in the thirteenth under the lordship of the Archbishop of Trier, Heinrich II von Vinstingen. It was destroyed in a fire in 1692 and has lain in ruin ever since.
Below, orientated inversely, are drawings of Zeltingen with the Kunibertsburg (see also Tate D28405; Turner Bequest CCXC 28) and Zeltingen and Wehlen.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

1
‘Ruins of Landshut Castle’, Ferienland Bernkastel-Kues, http://en.bernkastel.de/holiday-region/bernkastel-kues/what-to-see/ruins-of-landshut-castle-burg-landshut-express-landshut-castle-express.html, accessed 17 July 2013.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Graach, Bernkastel and the Landshut, Looking Upstream; Zeltingen, Looking Downstream; Wehlen and Zeltingen, Looking Downstream 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-graach-bernkastel-and-the-landshut-looking-upstream-r1150691, accessed 20 September 2024.