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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Briedel and the Marienburg, Looking Upstream; Zell, Looking Downstream 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Briedel and the Marienburg, Looking Upstream; Zell, Looking Downstream’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 115 Verso:
Briedel and the Marienburg, Looking Upstream; Zell, Looking Downstream 1824
D19775
Turner Bequest CCXVI 113 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered with agile line, these three views depict the Moselle valley at Briedel and Zell. The uppermost sketch shows the first of these towns from a distance, with the ruined remains of the Kloster Marienburg atop the high ridge at centre. Zell is pictured in the central and lowermost sketches, with the Church of Saints Peter and Paul and the Pulverturm, a three-tiered defensive tower positioned a little way up the hillside. Further studies of Zell can be found on Tate D19778, D28376–D28377, D28379; Turner Bequest CCXVI 114, CCXC 13a–14, 15.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Briedel and the Marienburg, Looking Upstream; Zell, Looking Downstream 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-briedel-and-the-marienburg-looking-upstream-zell-looking-r1174568, accessed 24 April 2024.