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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Schloss Stolzenfels and Kapellen, Looking Upstream; Burg Metternich at Beilstein on the Moselle, Looking Downstream from the Hillside 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Schloss Stolzenfels and Kapellen, Looking Upstream; Burg Metternich at Beilstein on the Moselle, Looking Downstream from the Hillside’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Schloss Stolzenfels and Kapellen, Looking Upstream; Burg Metternich at Beilstein on the Moselle, Looking Downstream from the Hillside 1839
D28527
Turner Bequest CCXC 86 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn inversely to one another are two views of the Schloss Stolzenfels and the village of Kapellen and the Burg Metternich at Beilstein. There is a detail of the latter fortification at top centre.
For other representations of the Schloss Stolzenfels in this sketchbook see Tate D28449, D28525, D28528; Turner Bequest CCXC 50, 85a, 87. For earlier drawings see the Waterloo and Rhine and Rhine sketchbooks of 1817 (Tate D12808, D12812, D12882, D12907, D12909, D12975, D12977; CLX 55a, 57a, 93, CLXI 14, 16, 49a, 50a). See also the 1824 Meuse and Moselle sketchbook (Tate D19829, D19831; Turner Bequest CCXVI 139a, 140a).
For further drawings of the Burg Metternich in this sketchbook see Tate D28364, D28366–D28368, D28528, D28537; Turner Bequest CCXC 7a, 8a–9a, 87, 91a. See also the First Mossel and Oxford sketchbook belonging to the same 1839 tour (Tate D28301, D28320, D28321; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 6a, 15a, 16). See also the 1839 gouache and watercolour drawing of the Burg (Tate D20239; Turner Bequest CCXXI F). For earlier sketches of the monument see the Rivers Meuse and Moselle and Moselle (or Rhine) sketchbooks of 1824 (Tate D19784, D19787, D19788, D19790, D19792, D20166, D20167; Turner Bequest CCXVI 117, 118a, 119, 120, 121, CCXIX 5, 6).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Schloss Stolzenfels and Kapellen, Looking Upstream; Burg Metternich at Beilstein on the Moselle, Looking Downstream from the Hillside 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-schloss-stolzenfels-and-kapellen-looking-upstream-burg-r1150807, accessed 23 April 2024.