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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Müden, Looking Upstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Müden, Looking Upstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Recto:
Müden, Looking Upstream 1839
D28559
Turner Bequest CCXCI 12
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 100 x 156 mm
Watermarked ‘& co[mp]’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Mudon’ top right
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘12’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCI–12’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The town of Müden lies within the Moselle valley in an area bordering the Eifel mountain range to the north, and the Hunsrück to the south. Here Turner has taken a quick sketch of the town from the river, the view incorporating St Stephen’s Church with its striking Romanesque ‘diamond tower’ built around 1200.1 To the right of the church are two timber-framed houses with steeply sloping gables. Turner has annotated the view with the inscription ‘Mudon’.
The vicinity around Müden is shown on the following folio 12 verso (Tate D28560; Turner Bequest CCXCI 12a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

1
‘St Stephanus Müden’, Pfarreiengemeinschaft Treis-Karden, http://www.mueden.pg-treis-karden.de/pfarrbuechereimueden.html, accessed 21 August 2013.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Müden, Looking Upstream 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-muden-looking-upstream-r1150843, accessed 11 May 2024.