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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Güls, Looking Upstream; A Riverside Castle 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Recto:
Güls, Looking Upstream; A Riverside Castle 1839
D28600
Turner Bequest CCXCI 33
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 100 x 156 mm
Watermarked ‘[& co]mp’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Chateau ?Nass’ (inverted) bottom towards left
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘33’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCI–33’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The principal view is of Güls, seen from a distance, with the twin towers of the Church of St Servatius. marked out with two vertical lines (see also Tate D28597, D28598, D28602; Turner Bequest CCXCI 31a, 32, 34). Orientated inversely is a small sketch of a castle overlooking the riverbank; it is annotated with what appears to read ‘Chateau ?Nass’, though no record of such a castle seems to exist.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Güls, Looking Upstream; A Riverside Castle 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-guls-looking-upstream-a-riverside-castle-r1150884, accessed 29 March 2024.