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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Beilstein and Burg Metternich, Looking Upstream 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Beilstein and Burg Metternich, Looking Upstream’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 122 Recto:
Beilstein and Burg Metternich, Looking Upstream 1824
D19790
Turner Bequest CCXVI 120
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘smith & [allnut] | 18[22]’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘120’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–120’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With nimble line, Turner depicts the picturesque Moselle town of Beilstein, with the Church of St Joseph and the Castle Metternich from a vantage point on the outskirts of Ellenz. For further drawings of the Burg Metternich in this book see Tate D19784, D19787–D19789, D19792, D20166, D20167; Turner Bequest CCXVI 117, 118a–119a, 121, CCXIX 5, 6.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Beilstein and Burg Metternich, Looking Upstream 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-beilstein-and-burg-metternich-looking-upstream-r1174581, accessed 20 April 2024.