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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Burg Ehrenfels, the Mäuseturm, Burg Klopp and Bingen, Looking Upstream from below the Binger Loch 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Burg Ehrenfels, the Mäuseturm, Burg Klopp and Bingen, Looking Upstream from below the Binger Loch’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 72 Recto:
Burg Ehrenfels, the Mäuseturm, Burg Klopp and Bingen, Looking Upstream from below the Binger Loch 1839
D28493
Turner Bequest CCXC 72
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘72’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–72’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The Castles Ehrenfels, Klopp, and Bingen, along with the Mäuseturm depicted in the previous folio (Tate D28492; Turner Bequest CCXC 71a), formed a network of defensive fortifications to protect the territory of the archbishopric of Mainz. The castles were of great strategic importance because of their favourable locations around the Binger Loch; they were used as toll stations to collect tax from ships passing through this stretch of the Rhine.1 Here Turner depicts the ruins of all three of these monuments, situated amongst dramatic mountain ranges of the Rhine Gorge.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

1
See entries for Castles Ehrenfels and Klopp, ‘Castles on the Rhine river in Germany’, Loreley Info, http://www.loreley-info.com/eng/rhein-rhine/castles.php, accessed 28 July 2013.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Burg Ehrenfels, the Mäuseturm, Burg Klopp and Bingen, Looking Upstream from below the Binger Loch 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-burg-ehrenfels-the-mauseturm-burg-klopp-and-bingen-looking-r1150776, accessed 23 April 2024.