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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Wellmich and Burg Maus, Looking Upstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Wellmich and Burg Maus, Looking Upstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 81 Verso
Wellmich and Burg Maus, Looking Upstream 1839
D28512
Turner Bequest CCXC 80 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This swiftly rendered sketch depicts the Burg Maus (Mouse Castle) above the village of Wellmich (now part of Sankt Goarshausen) on the east bank of the Rhine. Maus is located north of Burg Katz (Cat Castle) and Burg Rheinfels (see Tate D28455; Turner Bequest CCXC 53).
The Maus belonged to the electors of Trier and was constructed in the fourteenth century to enforce that city’s recently acquired Rhine toll rights and to secure its territories against the Counts of Katzenelnbogen who owned the castles Rheinfels and Katz.1

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

1
‘Burg Maus’, Welterbe Oberes Mittelrheintal, http://www.welterbe-mittelrheintal.de/index.php?id=104, accessed 23 July 2013.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Wellmich and Burg Maus, Looking Upstream 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-wellmich-and-burg-maus-looking-upstream-r1150795, accessed 25 April 2024.